Oct 20, 2026, 11:50 PM@molly0xfff I’m just imagining someone to finally build a quantum computer to crack a root CA certificate, and finally, after decades of cutting-edge science and billions of dollars in investment, the screen just shows “Private Key Solved: 4”
@xeno @molly0xfff oh boy this would have been a great stunt for some qc researcher lol. Claim to have cracked a ca key then drop this
Oct 20, 2026, 11:58 PM@azonenberg @molly0xfff that’s true lol
brb I’m gonna have the open ibm quantum computers generate numbers in order so that I can be the first person in history to solve a private key for a CA with a quantum computer
@xeno @molly0xfff like people have already run shors algorithm up to a*b= 15 or something on real QCs.
I'm sure there's a way to use a qc to break this key
Oct 21, 2026, 12:09 AM@azonenberg @molly0xfff i just did :3
@xeno @molly0xfff did you just generate numbers up to 4 or did you actually test them against the pubkey on the qc though? The latter part is what I'm not sure about
Oct 21, 2026, 12:20 AM@azonenberg @molly0xfff this generates the number 4