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> "...investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic."

This could be little more than a way of making the purchase of a bunch of D-Wave boxes sound more compelling than it might really be at this time. The problem with secret organizations with no oversight is that we'll probably never know for sure.



Sounds like a natural fit for quantum.


Not really. Quantum annealing, D-wave's quantum method, cannot solve these kinds problems any more efficiently than a normal computer.


We don't know this for a fact. There are quantum annealing algorithms for factoring numbers.




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