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Pen and paper it is then. meh

So.. by this logic. Crypto is obsolete and can be stolen at will?

that's scary

As someone who works in quantum information science, I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with your "soon" there

It kinda felt odd to have some many weirdly positive #quantum computing slop pieces recently... But maybe #nvidia just has data that implies the #ai bubble is about to burst? NB: if you click through, #reuters will think you're interested instead of laughing www.reuters.com/business/nvi...

This was literally the plot of the movie Sneakers.

Trying it out...

This world is cooked and I’m close to my Luddite era. Ted K was right, just terribly misguided

Erm. that is if working quantum computers existed :P .

*hate biometrics for sole identity validation

Yeah, we’re so screwed.

Long password length is the best way to secure passwords. How does this fare against 12, 16, 20 char passwords?

That’s crazy scary!

And here’s what lastpass suggests as a “very secure” password. It’s almost like this “cracking” graphic on the wired site just returns the same number for everything…

Also : How do you know you have a single character right in the password? Demo only for sure.

What ever to the ol' three tries and one is locked out for a period of time?

This is just like the movie Sneakers, but eight hours instead of instantaneous.

We gotta stop this!! We can't let them build whatever data centers they want and ruin the environment while they take away our privacy

Why are you always lying? Show us a working quantum computer that has been able to factor 2048 bit RSA in reality not in theory.

Ahh that would make more sense.

Oh great. Computational angle grinders! 🙄

@bullshitquantum.bsky.social

So how close are we to quantum computers?

That's for 8 character passwords, what about if we have no limits? xkcd.com/936/

Can this be true? If so, it's impact would be game changing

150 million years to crack a 8 character password? What on, a ZX81?

Is that "likely" and "soon" in the clickbait sense?

NIST has chosen some post-quantum encryption algorithms that will replace the ones we use today: www.nist.gov/news-events/...

So if my bank locks out my account after 3 or 4 incorrect password attempts, how is anyone going to use a quantum computer to crack my bank password?

So very secure, unbreakable passwords take exactly the same amount of time to crack as . . . password.

But can it run Crysis?

🤯

All encryption can be broken, including blockchain, sooner or later. Cannot be broken only means cannot be broken in your life time, using existing computers. Faster computers make the later sooner.

Oh great.

Gerald Cotten's victims should be happy about this

But how will I protect my $MELANIA

Why with everything else going on would you stress me out even more??? I love you Wired but I also need you to be in denial with me, too! 🤣