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This article asserts that D-Wave and other quantum annealing devices will be able to mount attacks long before a machine exists that can run Shor's algorithm with error-corrected qubits in sufficient quantity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arthurherman/2021/06/07/q-day-i...



Quantum Annealing is not a threat for cryptography. You can safely dismiss these sort of articles.


To second what the sibling comment has said, "quantum annealing" claims by DWave are considered fairly overblown (on some rare occasions even misleading/scammy). If the claims of this article held, they would have been much better known in the field and published in much more popular venues.




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