Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
breaking encryption algorithms
From what i heard, even 1,000 qubits isn’t close to enough for modern passwords: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0
Paywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.
Reversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
No, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they’re stored in.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 1 year ago
From what i heard, even 1,000 qubits isn’t close to enough for modern passwords: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0
Rin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Paywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Reversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
frezik@midwest.social 1 year ago
No, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they’re stored in.