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Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by kube-system on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:51AM (#43858430)
Quantum computers absolutely exist and are commercially available. They're just not very useful at the moment.
Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by rtkwe on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:57AM (#43859452)
It get exponentially difficult to add more qubits so it's not a given that we will be able to build one large enough to be a real threat to modern cryptography.
Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by layer8 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:33PM (#43862329)
“Quantum computers that break diffie hellman as easily as RSA”, where “easily” means “not at all”, do exist.