[Cryptography] Nvidia- one Tflop could change the rules quicker than quantum...

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 17:01:27 -0800 Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com>
wrote:
> Little machines like this from nVidia could change the computational
> rules for crypto quicker than quantum computing.

That's utterly risible. No number of GPUs are going to factor an
10,000 bit number using currently known methods, no matter how many
planets you turn into GPUs. Quantum computers could, however, conduct
the factoring quite straightforwardly.

Perry
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