Breakthrough poses a ‘real and substantial threat’ to password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, team says.
  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    The article says they hit AES, which doesn’t make much sense. Block ciphers aren’t vulnerable to QC in the same way as public key crypto. Even so far as Grover’s Algorithm would help at all, it’s far from being practical.