Posted on 12/14/2021 6:01:22 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
SAN FRANCISCO — China’s advances in quantum computing will give a new advantage to its armed forces, already the world’s third strongest, analysts say.
Quantum refers to a type of computing that lets high-powered machines make calculations that are too complex for ordinary devices.
The concept discovered by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1980 has two key military uses, the think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies said in a 2019 paper. It can decrypt encoded messages and send cryptographic keys that intercept otherwise secure communication chains, the study says.
“I think the challenge is basically in the dual civilian-military strategy of China where the government will enlist the private sector into its military modernization program,” said Alexander Vuving, professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Hawaii. “Also, the government of China spends a lot of money in research and development.”
China’s name surfaced last month when IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton said that within a decade Chinese “threat groups will likely collect data that enables quantum simulators to discover new economically valuable materials, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.”
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Quantum computing poses a threat to blockchain technology because it upends the basic security assumption of elliptic curve cryptography, namely, that computers cannot factor large numbers effectively, said Adam Koltun, lead strategist for the cryptocurrency Quantum Resistant Ledger.
Just how tough would it be to replace Slow Joe with a quantum ‘Rat computer?
China will pass us on a large number of important measures within the next 5-7 years. And there’s nothing that we can do to stop it at this point.
Oh, no! How will this affect the security of my NFTs?
sigh, here comes le quantum boogieman
Great scene!
Easy as pie. You wouldn't have to prove that it was functioning -
or even plugged in.
Wake me up when a quantum computer does something.
Does fleecing investors count?
Show me a real-life experiment of quantum behavior that can be replicated.
This is all babble about distant future…
Not required. A 64 bit Commodore could prob. adequately replace Biteme with power left over.
And it was called a Commodore 64 because it had 64K of memory.
Which was considered quite a lot at the time for a personal computer.
I had one, I wrote a program on it in BASIC to do purchase forecasting of part requirements of several different assemblies... IE I need 10 kits of A, 2 of B, and 6 of C.
A consists of these parts, B these parts, C these parts.
Pretty simple stuff.
But the IT staff that ran the IBM System 38 wanted months to figure out how to do that.
I think that was around 1983 or so.
This is getting scary.
China already leads the world in empty high rise buildings, impoverished farmers, and stolen technology!
“Does fleecing investors count? [quantum computing]”
Seriously, I read articles about quantum computing and can’t figure out what’s going on. Have they taken a square root with quantum computing? Have they done 2+2=4? I want to see source code that has been executed by a quantum computer.
Chicom bump for later.....
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