30 years ago people were asking what use a redular citizen would have for more than a couple of megabytes of storage. So yeah I’m just going to assume AAA game powercreep.
Comment on Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
what use would a regular citizen have for a quantum computer?
Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
Limited, but there might be a few. Generating the best route between two locations might be one.
There’s some stuff at medium sized businesses that would be useful, like how to pack a box most efficiently. Or many boxes in a truck.
EtzBetz@feddit.de 8 months ago
Your AI Girlfriend becoming even more real probably
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Bitcoin mining
tardigrada@beehaw.org 8 months ago
“Guaranteeing security and privacy” could a strong argument imho.
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
couldn’t they get that with a regular computer?
MagicShel@programming.dev 8 months ago
So regular cryptography is threatened by quantum computing, for sure. I imagine you’d wind up with some kind of quantum coprocessor like we used to have for math back in the day because quantum computing isn’t a replacement for current computers.
It would be interesting to see if having that capability locally would lead to finding other uses for it the way we did for GPUs and AI.
That said, I expect a long timeline for this to happen. We’ll see.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
I don’t see that happen anytime soon. The theoretical advantage can’t be used because of practical disadvantages, so far.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 8 months ago
There are plenty of quantum resistant cryptography methods that already exist and have existed for a decade or more.
dsemy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Read the article, the whole point is making the connection the the cloud actually secure.
giloronfoo@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Maybe not once quantum computers become more common.
Our current encryption methods can be represented as wave functions. This allows a sufficiently large quantum computer to solve for the keys in very little time.
There are new algorithms being developed that should defend against this. So you may still be correct.
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dsemy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
From the paper the article talks about
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
If you’re thinking of quantum encryption, that’s entirely separate from quantum computing.