Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoReversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
Comment on IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoReversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months 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.