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Almost like there's no free lunch. I don't see quantum computing ever really taking off without a fundamental breakthrough in our understanding of physics.

Would love to be proven wrong though if my understanding is incorrect and there's actually a feasible path towards quantum computing at scale.




I dont think there is any fundamental physics reasons preventing quantum computers. My understanding is it is an engineering problem. A hard one no doubt, but not a fundamental physics one.

Anyways, my point was that getting a quantum computer at a decent scale is really difficult. If we manage to overcome that burden somehow, the difference between 2048 bit rsa abd 4096 bit is peanuts.




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