Root Causes 37: Quantum Apocalypse - Will Quantum Annealing Break Cryptography? - podcast episode cover

Root Causes 37: Quantum Apocalypse - Will Quantum Annealing Break Cryptography?

Sep 09, 201921 min
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Episode description

Quantum annealing is a special case of quantum computing for which the engineering challenges are lessened - and therefore we expect computers of this sort to achieve stability sooner. In this episode we examine the potential for the quantum annealing approach to break RSA-based cryptography sooner than most people have been expecting, and the difficulty of predicting the "Z date" at all.
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