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China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer
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earth.com
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alt227
10 months ago
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gnabgib
10 months ago
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Discussion (28 points, 2 months ago, 20 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952396
gus_massa
10 months ago
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Also, the comments in the previous post explain that the two factors are essentially the square root of the key pus minus ~6. So it can be done with a calculator that has sqr and a few tries.
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