Larry Cohen

turns out you can break RSA with just 100k physical qubits...

@dallairedemers @nick_farina @Cat_States

@nick_farina @Cat_States If the trend continues quantum cryptanalysis will coincide with another theory breakthrough that further reduces the count of physical qubits. If there is another 10x reduction as labs hit the 100k qubits scale then that's it. Maybe specialized codes?

Google recently published a blog post calling for urgent post-quantum cryptography migration. Not some random think tank - Google. The company that built Willow, one of the most advanced quantum processors on Earth. Key points: 1.⁠They've been preparing since 2016 2.⁠They warn "store now, decrypt later" attacks are likely already happening — adversaries harvesting encrypted data today, waiting for quantum to crack it 3.⁠They're calling on policymakers to accelerate PQC adoption Now think about Bitcoin. $BTC uses ECDSA for transaction signing. Ethereum is all over the transition, but BTC continues to do a whole lot of not much. There is still some time, but in the meantime, algorithmic improvements have reduced the qubit counts required by 1,000x over the past decade. Good luck.

excited to share some new work on modular and efficient surgery for quantum ldpc codes. check out the blog post. iceberg-quantum.com/blog/modular-a…

building our first quantum computer @IcebergQuantum

excited to share some of what we’ve been cooking up at Iceberg. we introduce fast surgery, a method for performing logic in qldpc codes quicker. check out our blog post. iceberg-quantum.com/blog/fast-surg…

ai is so 2024 #NobelPrize