[Cryptography] Has quantum cryptanalysis actually achieved anything?

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Fri Feb 21 18:48:37 EST 2025



> On Feb 21, 2025, at 13:47, Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> writes:
> 
>    Jon> Before we do that, right below the AI answer was another
>    Jon> section of text on the page:
> 
>    Jon> Properties of the number 2323 Factorization 23 * 101
> 
>    Jon> So which is it, 13 * 179, or 23 * 101?
> 
>    Jon> I shall leave that as an exercise for you, gentle reader, with
>    Jon> a hint that the number is twenty-three hundred and
>    Jon> twenty-three.
> 
> So what you are saying is that AI is as good as quantum computing?:-)

Yes! That is precisely the joke. I'm still snickering about it.

	Jon



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