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Comment by ceroxylon

19 hours ago

My first thought was the people capturing encrypted data in the hopes that quantum computing can crack it in the foreseeable future.

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Obscurity4340  7 hours ago

Wouldnt quantum be more like cracking twice as fast? Like if a password would take 50 million years to crack, it would be like 25 million years?

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