No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
October 22 2024The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, it’s not true.
This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which wasn’t bad but was taken widely out of proportion.
Cryptography is safe, and will be for a long time
EDITED TO ADD (11/3): Really good explainer from Dan Goodin.
