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by gizmo686 3086 days ago
Much of modern crypto is based on the assumption that integer factorization and discrete logarithms are difficult problems. With quantum computers, this is known not to be the case.
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Known not to be the case if they actually worked in real life, that is. We're still waiting for a solid demonstration of quantum supremacy to prove that though.
Yes. And we were waiting on an attack that used speculative CPU execution / branch prediction since 2006.