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Microsoft's quantum computing claims slammed as 'fraudulent' (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] cabbage@piefed.social 91 points 1 day 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 55 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours 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 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sorry - did you read the slides?

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh I love this!

[–] AynRandLibertarian@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago

How could you tell??

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 13 points 1 day 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 1 day ago

AI will figure it out my dude!!