🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>> Researchers claim to have used a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantumComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumComputer</span></a> to factor a 2,048-bit <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSA</span></a> integer.</p><p>> But the RSA number evaluated was the product of two prime factors that were too close together.</p><p>> As with a parlor magician's card deck that's been stacked for a card trick</p><p>> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/factorization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>factorization</span></a> is performed using sleight-of-hand numbers that have been selected to make them very easy to factorize using a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> experiment</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/quantum_cryptanalysis_criticism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/07/17/qua</span><span class="invisible">ntum_cryptanalysis_criticism/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quantumComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptography</span></a></p>