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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

breaking encryption algorithms

[-] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

From what i heard, even 1,000 qubits isn't close to enough for modern passwords: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00017-0

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

Paywall. Also, passwords and RSA are two different things.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Reversing hashing algos is what people mean when they talk about quantum computers cracking passwords / encryption, though.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

No, they mean breaking RSA. The industry standard methods of storing passwords are resistant to QC attacks. Passwords could be broken while being passed between client and server under existing algorithms, but not the databases they're stored in.

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