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Root Causes 37: Quantum Apocalypse - Will Quantum Annealing Break Cryptography?

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, midnight

b'Quantum annealing is a special case of quantum computing for which the engineering challenges are lessened - and therefore we expect computers of this sort to achieve stability sooner. In this episode we examine the potential for the quantum annealing approach to break RSA-based cryptography sooner than most people have been expecting, and the difficulty of predicting the "Z date" at all.'