Re: [cryptography] NSA breakthrough

2013-06-14 Thread Noon Silk 
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:20 PM, jamescho...@austin.rr.com wrote:

 DWave comes to mind.


Sure yeah, under the list of things that can't possibly be useful in any
way for the problem described.

The DWave machine is widely considered to not be a universal quantum
computer[1], and  *even if it was*, which it isn't, there are no known
quantum algorithms which offer any serious benefit in this arena.


[1] See for instance: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400

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Re: [cryptography] NSA breakthrough

2013-06-14 Thread Tony Arcieri 
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 there are no known quantum algorithms which offer any serious benefit in
 this arena.


o_O

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

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Re: [cryptography] NSA breakthrough

2013-06-14 Thread Tony Arcieri 
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tony Arcieri tony.arci...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Noon Silk noonsli...@gmail.com wrote:

 there are no known quantum algorithms which offer any serious benefit in
 this arena.


 o_O

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm


Also note: not talking about D-Wave here, just quantum computers in
general...

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