On 4/2/2014 2:50 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
Or someone builds a working quantum computer with many bits and demonstrate a working decryption of RSA-2048 in a few seconds. :-)
Not likely in the near term... Maybe in 5000 years or so, but by then I suspect computing as we know it will be ancient history (actually it *would* be)...
Well, you'd need 4096 qubits in the ensemble, representing a state space of something like 10^1233 (not a typo).
That's a LOT of zeroes. Maybe my initial estimate was off by several dozen orders of magnitude...
At that point I'm going to just give up and offer my services to our new Space Overlords from Zarbnulax Prime. Maybe if I help round up pesky humans they'll give me a ride in their FTL spaceships!
LMAO! I got a good laugh out of this one. Thanks, I needed that...
:)
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