Timeline for Now that quantum computers have been out for a while, has RSA been cracked?
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| Mar 7, 2019 at 10:36 | comment | added | forest | @RobZ It's been a long time since the NSA has had the upper hand in cryptography. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 7:49 | comment | added | Demi | @RobZ I think part of it relates to strong legal precedent that in the US, once the press gains information, they can publish it, and cannot be stopped from doing so. | |
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| Oct 15, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | Fixee | "Their claimed speedup over classical algorithms appears to be based on a misunderstanding of a paper my colleagues van Dam, Mosca and I wrote on "The power of adiabatic quantum computing." That speed up unfortunately does not hold in the setting at hand, and therefore D-Wave's "quantum computer" even if it turns out to be a true quantum computer, and even if it can be scaled to thousands of qubits, would likely not be more powerful than a cell phone." -- Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley | |
| Aug 22, 2011 at 1:51 | vote | accept | bbosak | ||
| Aug 18, 2011 at 14:17 | comment | added | bbosak | @Rob Z - European governments seem better at it than the USA. Look at WikiLeaks for an example, and that's not even the beginning. The National Institute of Health also lost sensitive data washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/… on a laptop, because it was not encrypted. Our government has lost its ability to keep secrets in the digital era. | |
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| Aug 17, 2011 at 17:47 | comment | added | Rob Z | @IDWMaster - Clifford Cocks described the algorithm in five years prior to the Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman paper and nobody heard about it for 25 years. Granted Cocks' was affiliated with GCHQ as opposed to NSA, but people do know how to keep quiet about stuff. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 17:37 | comment | added | IDWMaster | @Christopher Mahan - The NSA can't keep secrets as well as you'd expect. If they had really cracked RSA, the public would have (probably) found out by now, and we'd already be in World War 3. | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 17:02 | comment | added | Christopher Mahan | Perhaps they can't answer because the NSA is a client and has told them to deny any claim that quantum computers can be used to crack encryption? (Pure speculation on my part) | |
| Aug 17, 2011 at 16:50 | history | answered | bbosak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |