The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.
  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Cracking encryption is one of the things we expect quantum computers to be extremely good at, so I’m not particularly surprised by this development.

    • Mike1576218@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      D-wave is not a classical quantum computer. It is known to not be able to run Shors algorithm.

        • Mike1576218@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          “The computers are not general purpose, but rather are designed for quantum annealing. Specifically, the computers are designed to use quantum annealing to solve a single type of problem known as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization. As of 2015, it was still debated whether large-scale entanglement takes place in D-Wave Two, and whether current or future generations of D-Wave computers will have any advantage over classical computers.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Two

          I’m not aware this has changed.

          On the plus side: they have >5000 qbits