boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoIBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chipwww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square102linkfedilinkarrow-up1473arrow-down110
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minus-square800XL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·2 years agobreaking encryption algorithms
minus-squareCorhen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·2 years agoFrom what i heard, even 1,000 qubits isn’t close to enough for modern passwords: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 years agoReversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoNo, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they’re stored in.
breaking encryption algorithms
From what i heard, even 1,000 qubits isn’t close to enough for modern passwords: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0
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Reversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
No, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they’re stored in.