The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
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1 year ago
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| wired.com
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taylodl
1 year ago
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It's currently estimated that 13 million qubits are required to break 256-bit encryption within 24 hours. Our ability to create a 13 million qubit computer is realistically beyond our 10 year horizon, so we can ignore it. This is the exact opposite of "be very afraid."
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aithrowawaycomm
1 year ago
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Do these probabilities mean anything at all?

  When Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cybersecurity experts last year, the forecast was sobering: a one-in-three chance that Q-Day happens before 2035. And the chances it has already happened in secret? Some people I spoke to estimated 15 percent—about the same as you’d get from one spin of the revolver cylinder.
This whole thing that you can rate your confidence 1-100, chant "Bayes," and it becomes a probability is endlessly frustrating. Sigma-additivity, shmiga-additivity!
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