D-WAVE systems are big and heavy (you need a lab with a concrete slab just to put it on) and this isn’t an attack method that works for large scale attacks, it’s targeted. But it’s also just the first successful published attack and we need to start using the new NIST post quantum encryptions
Reposted from Mark Chadbourn
Chinese researchers have used a quantum computer to crack encryption methods, putting cryptographic systems under threat.

(H/t Pete Allison)

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