Experts Play Down Significance of Chinese Quantum “Hack”

Security experts have urged caution after a stream of doom-laden reports in recent days claimed Chinese researchers have cracked military-grade encryption using quantum computing technology.

“While the research shows quantum computing's potential threat to classical encryption, the attack was executed on a 22-bit key – far shorter than the 2048 or 4096-bit keys commonly used in practice today. The suggestion that this poses an imminent risk to widely used encryption standards is misleading,” DigiCert head of R&D Avesta Hojjati argued.

“This research, while intriguing, does not equate to an immediate quantum apocalypse.”

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