Re: DWave Quantum Computing demo

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On 2/15/07, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> ...
> Forget factoring primes of huge numbers: red herring.  (Generally, everything you
> know about quantum computing is wrong.

while this is true to some degree, dwave is overly anxious to dismiss
any cryptanalytic uses for their adiabatic qc hardware for
understandable reasons.

never the less, a large qubit adiabatic machine is universal for qc
and applicable to pubkey cracking. [breaking large key symmetric
ciphers is much more difficult. if anyone knows of comparisons for
this type of qc computation i'd love to know about it]

i agree that other more practical uses for optimization and search
will be very significant.  assuming dwave can scale their design as
expected we've got some interesting times ahead...
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