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DARPA Research Leads To Groundbreaking Discovery In Quantum Computing. (thedebrief.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A team of Harvard scientists working on a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a significant breakthrough in the field of quantum computing.

Researchers working with the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (ONISQ) program say they have created the world’s first quantum circuit using logical quantum bits (qubits). The innovation marks a significant stride towards fault-tolerant quantum computing, promising to revolutionize the design of quantum computer processors.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

At a superficial level, I can understand what is being said and what promises such breakthrough carries.

But when I stop and think for a moment on what I truly read I'm left feeling incredibly stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know some of those words... the short ones.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

I didn’t know DARPA was a thing since it made the internet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So, can it crack public keys?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Almost certainly not yet. But sooner than I'd like. There's a ton of encrypted comms that have been vacuumed up by state and private actors who are just waiting for quantum computers to get good enough to crack them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And if it can, are there any cipher suites that are quantom-proof?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

maybe real short ones : )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Let's come back to all of this when all those "quantum breakthroughs" manage to compute anything worthwhile that is not a quantum computer benchmark, but solves a real world problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

smells like the groundwork for much more significant progress in the future to me. Assuming i read that correctly, and that the article isn't just wrong.