I'm not holding my breath that this holds up to any scrutiny. For one thing, the author is refusing in the thread -- multiple times -- to demonstrate his attack. He says we need to wait for the publication of his paper. He also says you can email him and get a pre-publication copy of the paper.
We show that the equivalence of QC techniques (with IBM, Google and others compared with our version of QC) has been hidden for about 2,500 years – since Pythagoras.
Can it be any more of an obvious scam and/or ramblings of a cryptography kook.
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The link to the researcher's post is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgerck_today-we-could-announ....
I'm not holding my breath that this holds up to any scrutiny. For one thing, the author is refusing in the thread -- multiple times -- to demonstrate his attack. He says we need to wait for the publication of his paper. He also says you can email him and get a pre-publication copy of the paper.
Someone should probably tell him that cellphones and desktops aren't capable of quantum computation yet.
Can it be any more of an obvious scam and/or ramblings of a cryptography kook.
The largest known broken RSA key length is 829.
@dang Should we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167799 ?
Uh-huh. Sure. Me too.