RSA’s demise from quantum attacks is very much exaggerated, expert says
At the Enigma 2023 Conference in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday, computer scientist and security and privacy expert Simson Garfinkel assured researchers that the demise of RSA was greatly exaggerated. For the time being, he said, quantum computing has few, if any, practical applications.
Here’s the basis for his assessment:
"For the time being, he said, quantum computing has few, if any, practical applications."
I think this is maybe not best way to put it. The concept potentially has a lot of practical applications; 'give the field its credit' seems fair... but the practical part, as I understand it, is the count of qubits that can be kept stable is way too small to use against any practical size RSA key.
How we say this can head off an argument that need not start 😉
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I find this an amusing contrast because I was just looking at a Time article that @preskill posted yesterday (to criticize) that was on the other end of the hype spectrum. (The takes in this thread seem far more accurate to me, of course.). https://qubit-social.xyz/@preskill/109758337216775163
