Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Trump Continues to Justify Syria Withdrawal: VICE News Update: October 23, 2019" video.

  1. "If true all the encryption [..] may soon be cracked in seconds" Nope. Sensationalistic bullshit, and bad press. If you don't understand the concept, don't make clickbait assumptions about it that you don't understand nor know is true. Freaking tired of bad science interpretations. Quantum Supremacy is a milestone, performing a task exponentially faster than traditional computing, but it does not specify WHICH task it is, and this is the most important part to understand why this does not lead to encryption being cracked in seconds soon. In Google's case, it was about predicting how quantum phenomena would generate pseudo-random numbers, which the quantum computer did, in 200 seconds versus a predicted 10 thousands years a regular computer would do. Random number generation and analysis. That's the task Google used to achieve Quantum Supremacy. But you see, it isn't anywhere close to cracking encryption. And even then, it took a whole ton of work, a whole ton of research, and the latest in quantum computer tech advances to do that. It is an achievement, make no mistake, but saying encryption will soon be cracked in seconds is a non sequitur. Given the complex nature of quantum computers, we could be anywhere between years, decades or centuries from making quantum computers crack encryption. It is hard to predict because there's no way currently to know how fast Quantum Computer development will really be. Other stuff to note - just because Google achieved it with massive amounts of money put on research, equipment and an insane infrastructure to support it (this includes chambers full of highly sensitive and highly controlled specialized equipment), does not mean that your average basement hacker will have access to that sort of technology anytime soon. Also, encryption is not a single thing that works uniformly and thus can be cracked by a single method. There are types of encryption that a quantum computer could be very strong at cracking, there are other types that using a quantum computer to crack doesn't make much sense. In the same manner, encryption is not a static field or concept. There are different encryption methods/algorithms, parts of encryption that are already quantum resistant, and development of new quantum resistant encryption algorithms out there. It'll likely come faster than quantum computers being applied for cracking. So there you go.
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