Improved Research and Roadmaps For Quantum to Crack Main Internet Security RSA-2048
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#76XAQ)
Shor's algorithm for factoring RSA-2048 (and related problems like elliptic-curve discrete logs) has seen dramatic reductions in estimated resources over the past 18 months. Theoretically breaking RSA-2048 would still require multi-day runtimes and billions of non-Clifford logical operations (primarily Toffoli gates) under realistic error rates (~0.1%) and cycle times. This remains far beyond near-term machines. ...