Re:Large-scale quantum chip validated
by frozenport on Saturday June 29, 2013 @06:55AM
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The same argument can be used for flying saucers, because hell maybe in the next 100 years we will have flying saucers.
Anyways, my field is likewise peripheral to quantum computing (computational E&M) but having worked in HPC OEM the NSA buys lots of equipments that would be used for conventional password cracking. We would expect them to stop buying that stuff when they broke the speed-of-light and got a quantum computer.
What they most likely have are novels ways to do collisions on different algorithms. Such as the MD5 collision scheme used by the recent 2 US/Israeli viruses.
Anyways, my field is likewise peripheral to quantum computing (computational E&M) but having worked in HPC OEM the NSA buys lots of equipments that would be used for conventional password cracking. We would expect them to stop buying that stuff when they broke the speed-of-light and got a quantum computer.
What they most likely have are novels ways to do collisions on different algorithms. Such as the MD5 collision scheme used by the recent 2 US/Israeli viruses.