RSA And Bitcoin At Big Risk From Quantum Compute
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Researchers find we'll need 20 times fewer qubits to break public-key encryption than previously believed.
A new paper puts a fire under DevOps, IT teams and anyone else using modern RSA-or similar public-key cryptosystems. Factoring big primes now seems much, much easier for quantum computers than we thought even a few years ago.
Of course, the Devil is in the details. In today's SBBlogwatch, we never shy away from detail.