Re:How to compute a 256 bit elliptic curve key with 50M Toff...
by adastra22 on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:03AM
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That seems like a damning critique, but the reality is that quantum capabilities can and likely will advance as a series of step functions. The quantum machines we can build now are so noisy that we can’t even factor 3 digit numbers. However low nois quantum computers are on the drawing board and would bring many order of magnitude improvements nearly overnight.
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Re:How to compute a 256 bit elliptic curve key with 50M Toff...
by tromp on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:12AM
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> The quantum machines we can build now are so noisy that we can’t even factor 3 digit numbers.
Or most 2-digit numbers, for that matter. After more than a decade, the record still stands at 21=3x7 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records#...