[MidnightRider39]

> any of my security friends if they wanted to spend time on … quantum

I commend your friends but many people in these HN threads seem to be ready to implement post-quantum encryption right now to protect against some future threats.

> you meant having the qbits to deploy such an attack, right

Yes - last time I checked it was like 3 stable qbits. It’s just so far off from being a reality i really can’t take that research seriously. I feel like a lot of resources are wasted in this kind of research when we are still dealing with very basic problems that aren’t just as sexy to tackle.

Edit: heart disease is a real thing so your analogy is lacking - there have been 0 security risks because of quantum in the real world. It’s more like “physicians concentrating on possible alien diseases from when we colonise the universe in the future while ignoring heart disease”

[snowwrestler]

I think one reason people want to take it seriously is that to the non-expert it just looks like a scale engineering problem, and people have proven to be shockingly good at scale engineering over the past century.