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Banking could be disrupted.Private messages, health records, government secrets hacked and exposed in seconds. Military plans, weapon design, classified intelligence from ASIO ripe for the picking by anyone with access to the right quantum tools.
Philippine Canadian Inquirer Mind-bending maths could stop quantum hackers, but few understand it Science
A flawed paper shakes confidence in the foundations of ‘quantum-proof’ encryption – and highlights the need for a new generation of experts.
Update (April 19): Apparently a bug has been found, and the author has withdrawn the claim (see the comments). For those who don't yet know from their other social media: a week ago the cryptographer Yilei Chen posted a preprint, eprint.iacr.org/2024/555, claiming to give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm to solve lattice problems. For example, it…