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Microsoft's quantum computing claims slammed as 'fraudulent' (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 103 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is a piece of alleged technology that is based on basic physics that has not been established.

That does sound like a problem.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I love these slides about how quantum cryptography attacks are a made up scenario https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/bollocks.pdf

Dude is a comedic genius

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh I love this!

[–] AynRandLibertarian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh you're just loving this aren't you? 😂

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

How could you tell??

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prime factorisation is indeed nobody's primary idea of what a quantum computer will be useful for in practice any time soon, but it cannot be denied that Shor's algorithm is the first and only method of prime factorisation we have discovered which can finish in realistic time with realistic resources.

And that means that RSA is no longer as safe as it once was, justifying the process of finding alternatives.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry - did you read the slides?

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Indeed I did. They seem to be pointing to the fact that current machines are not factoring primes in any serious way.

Does this contradict my point?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We should find out next week at APS Global if it's really a problem or a case of Physicist Sergey Frolov, the author of that quote, failing to understand what's been done.

Microsoft could be full of shit about Majorana 1 of course but it would be damned odd for them to make a claim like this without being able to back it up; the fallout would be horrendous.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

I have to agree with this. Say what you will about MS, but it'd be odd to claim something this crazy that they can't at least sorta backup.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

AI will figure it out my dude!!