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    3 days ago

    heh yup. I think the most recent one (somewhere in the last year) was something like 12-bit rsa? stupendously far off from being a meaningful thing

    Iā€™ll readily admit to being a cryptography mutt and a qc know-barely-anything, and even from my limited understanding the assessment of where people are at (with how many qubits theyā€™ve managed to achieve in practical systems) everything is hilariously woefully far off ito attacks

    that doesnā€™t entirely invalidate pqc and such (since the notion there is not merely defending against today/soon but also a significant timeline)

    one thing I am curious about (and which you mightā€™ve seen or be able to talk about, blake): is there any kind of known correlation between qubits and viable attacks? I realize part of this quite strongly depends on the attack method as well, but off the cuff I have a guess (ā€œintuitionā€ is probably the wrong word) that it probably scales some weird way (as opposed to linear/log/exp)