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kube-system
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How the US defense secretary circumvents official ...
Quantum computers absolutely exist and are commercially available. They're just not very useful at the moment.
rtkwe
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It get exponentially difficult to add more qubits so it's not a given that we will be able to build one large enough to be a real threat to modern cryptography.
layer8
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“Quantum computers that break diffie hellman as easily as RSA”, where “easily” means “not at all”, do exist.
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