> All our [quantum computations] were done in a commercial cellphone, or a commercial Linux desktop...
Someone should probably tell him that cellphones and desktops aren't capable of quantum computation yet.
The largest known broken RSA key length is 829.
@dang Should we mark this as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167799 ?
Uh-huh. Sure. Me too.
The link to the researcher's post is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgerck_today-we-could-announ....
I'm not holding my breath that this holds up to any scrutiny. For one thing, the author is refusing in the thread -- multiple times -- to demonstrate his attack. He says we need to wait for the publication of his paper. He also says you can email him and get a pre-publication copy of the paper.