Re:Bitcoin still makes no sense
by mandragon on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:39PM
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A QC to implement shor's algo at a practical level would need millions of non-ec'ed qubits. At least publicly, we are likely quite far from any such advance.
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Integer factorization (ie. Shor's algorithm) would only be useful to break RSA, not Elliptic Curve cryptography...
ECC can be theoretically broken with Shor's algorithm:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#...