The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.
Paper: http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf
Follow up to https://lemmy.ca/post/30853830
You probably don’t even need quantum for this, one day someone’s gonna figure out a clever trick for primes. It’s not mathematically provable to be “hard” and if you look on a radial graph there’s a visible pattern. I’ll worry when people are breaking decent sized elliptic curves.