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We're good! It's a risk assessment - nothing has been broken, but they propose that with a computer with these specs it could be done.

I wouldn't worry too much about encryption being easily broken soon.



For those who worry about it, it isn't that it's broken soon, but that it will be broken within a timeframe that the data is still useful.

Veritasium : How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now - https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later


I'm not sure what encrypted data produced today would be relevant in 40 years time? Thinking about how some cases can't be prosecuted since it's been too long since the offence




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