Recall, we are talking about a sensational article released by a group of 24 Chinese scientists who demonstrated quite long RSA -sticks using modern quantum computers. You can familiarize yourself with our news on this topic by link.
This study could remain known only in certain circles of mathematicians and people involved in quantum calculations if Cryptographer Bruce Schneier had not paid attention to him. In his blog he wrote that to The study should be taken seriously, but no longer spoke out about it. However, the next day, the Western media began to make whole articles from a small record in a personal blog with loud headlines about hacking RSA-2048 using quantum computers.
After some time, about this spoke Scott Aaronson – a specialist in the theory of computing machines and systems, teacher of the faculty of computer sciences Texas University in Austin, briefly described an article by Chinese researchers in three words: “No. Just no.” In addition, he cooled the fervor of scientists with their own reservoir: “It should be noted that the quantum acceleration of the algorithm is unclear due to the ambiguous convergence of the algorithm of quantum approximate optimization (QAOA).”
Aarson claims that this is a strong need, because it has not yet been proven that the Schnorra algorithm, even with QAOA, will work faster on a quantum rather than on an ordinary computer.
“In general, this is one of the most actively misleading work on quantum calculations that I have seen in 25 years. And I saw extremely a lot,” the scientist summed up.