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Re:Google Quantum AI by hedora on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:33PM (#40189766)
How would breaking RSA change the world?

Perhaps via some practical (non-crypto) application of factoring large numbers?

Re:Google Quantum AI by vtomole on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:57PM (#40190396)
Breaking RSA changes the world by breaking crypto and implicitly by moving protocols to post-quantum crypto, which is already happening https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/.

Quantum computers also change the world by solving circuit-SAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_satisfiability_problem more efficiently than classical computers than.

They also change the world by simulating quantum systems efficiently, which classical computers cannot do. This has profound implications for physics.