Comment by mikestorrent
2 days ago
D-Wave themselves do not emphasize this use case and have said many times that they don't expect annealing quantum computers to be used for this kind of decryption attack. Annealers are used for optimization problems where you're trying to find the lowest energy solution to a constraint problem, not Shor's Algorithm.
In that sense, they're more useful for normal folks today, and don't pose as many potential problems.
I suspect that we simply haven't yet found an annealing solution for factoring integers yet.
It may be that no solution exists; even given better error correction with that many qubits.
A standard LLM today won't yet answer with "no solution exists"