Quantum computers have long been a potential threat to encryption
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Quantum computers could break a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. Although this is still far beyond the capacities of existing quantum computers, this new estimate is 20 times lower than what previously thought, which suggests that day encryption is cracked is closer than we think.
The widely used RSA algorithm is based on the fact that the multiplication of two prime numbers to generate a large encryption key is easy, but finding these original first factors when you have everything you have is the resulting key is …
