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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Saganaki@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but could also be used to break that security

Not really, unless really stupid encryption was used. The best quantum can do is the log of a problem space. It can do log(N) if the problem space is N.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago

TIL RSA is a pretty stupid encryption algorithm.