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Re:Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm by rnovak on Friday December 05, 2014 @03:51PM (#8706819)
Looks like the algo attacked was already a quantum algorithm, not classical computing algorithm.
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Re:Quantum Attack on Public-Key Algorithm by rbanffy on Friday December 05, 2014 @04:54PM (#8707140)
No - it's classical, but it was, until now, considered resistant to quantum algorithms (as in a QC would not yield a significant improvement over a classical computer).
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