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nicuramar t1_j1nvptv wrote

Reply to comment by nagareteku in An IBM Quantum Computer Will Soon Pass the 1,000-Qubit Mark by giuliomagnifico

> Maybe the US government already has the capability to crack SHA256 hashing and AES encryption using quantum computing accelerators. This could be old declassified technology.

That's extremely unlikely to be the case. Especially since quantum computers don't provide any useful speedup for those applications.

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