Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why?
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Either somewhere on the far left, and we’ll see some actual breakthrough with major impact in the future which actually gets hyped, or on the far right and it already happened, it was just too niche for anyone other than a specific small group to notice.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
I think the big breakthrough was in cryptography, and yeah, most people don’t care. All of your passwords will be useless against brute force attacks in 10-15 years from it tho!
balder1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But we already have quantum proof passwords nowadays.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Even “quantum proof” passwords are trivially broken if quantum computers allow us to practically solve p=np.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s a pretty big assumption though, and even then you can just switch to a new password format that allows for passwords that aren’t solvable using mathematical means. e.g. my password is to fill in a picture on 10x10 grid using 10 different colours. There’s no mathematical basis to guess my picture and there are more posibilites than there are particles in the observable universe.