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Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough

by byteshock on 11/4/23, 6:48 AM with 6 comments

• by marcus0x62 on 11/4/23, 2:51 PM

  The link to the researcher's post is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgerck_today-we-could-announ....

  I'm not holding my breath that this holds up to any scrutiny. For one thing, the author is refusing in the thread -- multiple times -- to demonstrate his attack. He says we need to wait for the publication of his paper. He also says you can email him and get a pre-publication copy of the paper.

• by WCSTombs on 11/4/23, 9:14 AM

  > All our [quantum computations] were done in a commercial cellphone, or a commercial Linux desktop...

  Someone should probably tell him that cellphones and desktops aren't capable of quantum computation yet.

• by aborsy on 11/4/23, 7:58 AM

  The largest known broken RSA key length is 829.

• by PeterWhittaker on 11/8/23, 8:23 PM

  @dang Should we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167799 ?

• by AndroTux on 11/4/23, 8:33 AM

  Uh-huh. Sure. Me too.