On 2/15/07, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... Forget factoring primes of huge numbers: red herring. (Generally, everything you know about quantum computing is wrong.
while this is true to some degree, dwave is overly anxious to dismiss any cryptanalytic uses for their adiabatic qc hardware for understandable reasons. never the less, a large qubit adiabatic machine is universal for qc and applicable to pubkey cracking. [breaking large key symmetric ciphers is much more difficult. if anyone knows of comparisons for this type of qc computation i'd love to know about it] i agree that other more practical uses for optimization and search will be very significant. assuming dwave can scale their design as expected we've got some interesting times ahead... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
