boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoIBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chipwww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1473arrow-down111
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minus-square800XL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·7 months agobreaking encryption algorithms
minus-squareCorhen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·7 months 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-squareRin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·7 months agoPaywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.
minus-squareferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·7 months agoReversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·7 months 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
Paywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.
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.