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Re:Large-scale quantum chip validated by beloch on Saturday June 29, 2013 @01:50AM (#5961591)
That depends...

The D-Wave processor probably isn't useful for cracking it. However, if you send RSA encrypted data, copies can be made of the encrypted data and cracked at a later date when better facilities or algorithms become available. If you wish to send a message that would make the NSA want to hunt you down and kill you if they decrypt it N years from now (and you plan to live >N years), you should probably be more careful. I don't think we have a good idea of what N is. It's probably pretty big, but it might not be.

Re:Large-scale quantum chip validated by i_am_dead on Saturday June 29, 2013 @04:42AM (#5961796)
I'm willing to bet that N is a single digit.