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This is big:

"Chinese researchers break #RSA #encryption with a quantum computer"
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3562701/chinese-researchers-break-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer.html

#QuantumComputing

in reply to petersuber

They didn’t break RSA, they factored a 22-bit RSA number. To put it into perspective, RSA100 (330 bits) was factored via traditional means in 1991.

(For more perspective, current keys are usually 2048/4096 bits.)

Hugely misleading headline.