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2024-10-21 17:50:53

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial on Nostr: I have a feeling that this "50-bit RSA factored with quantum computer" story wouldn't ...

I have a feeling that this "50-bit RSA factored with quantum computer" story wouldn't be getting anywhere near as much fearmongering coverage if the paper wasn't written in Chinese. classic sinophobia in tech media.

(and no, this isn't really particularly interesting for cryptography. I just factored the 50-bit semiprime from the paper with a simple for loop in C# on a single 2.2GHz core. it took 95ms)
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