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.
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.
I know some of those words… the short ones.
I didn’t know DARPA was a thing since it made the internet
So, can it crack public keys?
And if it can, are there any cipher suites that are quantom-proof?
maybe real short ones : )
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.
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.
