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owlbite ◴[] No.45083253[source]
So how many gates are we talking to factor some "cryptographically useful" number? Is there some pathway that makes quantum computers useful this century?
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nabla9 ◴[] No.45084520[source]
For RSA 4096 10^7 qubits with 10^-4 error rate (order of magnitude).

You can do useful and valuable quantum chemistry calculations already with few 100s of qubits with that low error rates, while post-quantum algorithms are becoming more common everyday removing incentives to build crypto cracking quantum computers.

I think the quantum computing will advance fastest in directions that are not easy to use in cryptography.

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1. smj-edison ◴[] No.45088729[source]
Honestly, if all quantum computers manage to pull off is quantum chemistry, I feel like that'll be enough. It would be a massive boon to the field of material sciences at any rate, which underlies so much of current infrastructure.