{"id":4060,"date":"2024-10-15T12:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/chinese-researchers-break-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:03:27","slug":"chinese-researchers-break-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/chinese-researchers-break-rsa-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.<\/h2>\n

In a potentially alarming development for global cybersecurity, Chinese researchers have unveiled a method using D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to crack classic encryption, potentially accelerating the timeline for when quantum computers could pose a real threat to widely used cryptographic systems.<\/p>\n

Published in the Chinese Journal of Computers under the title “Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage,” the paper outlined how D-Wave’s machines were used to break RSA encryption and attack symmetric encryption systems, raising serious questions about the future of cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems,” the researchers wrote in the paper.<\/p>\n

The study highlights how quantum annealing can turn cryptographic attacks into combinatorial optimization problems, making them easier to solve.<\/p>\n

“This is the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use today,” the researchers noted, referring to widely used encryption methods based on the Substitution-Permutation Network (SPN) structure… <\/span>Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA. In a potentially alarming development for global cybersecurity, Chinese researchers have unveiled a method using D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to crack classic encryption, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cirics.uqo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}