[Cryptography] Has quantum cryptanalysis actually achieved anything?

[Bill Stewart]

On 2/20/2025 12:19 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
> I have a follow-up and addendum to my missive of last night.
> 
> I went over to Google and typed in "factor 2323" -- 
DDG offered me "23x101" and a bunch of websites that said things like 
"1,23,101".
Then there's the old "physicist, mathematician, engineer" joke with
"2's prime, 3's prime, 5's prime, 7's prime, 9's prime, 11'ss prime..."

But more seriously, a few months ago there was something in the press 
about a Chinese group using D-Wave to crack some kind of crypto;
did that turn out to be bogus?