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As expensive as a plane flight: Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work. (blog.cr.yp.to)

submitted 3 days ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

TL;DR - Quantum computing is great, if you're the bad guy. For the rest of us, there's a cost/value tradeoff in defending against quantum computing threats. People will tell us it's too much hassle to upgrade our encryption, but it can be done with reasonable effort.

And a big point is, it is a technology that we have to develop anyway, since big targets like governments, military or big financial or economic companies would want to defend against anyway.