{"id":49,"date":"2026-09-23T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:40:38","slug":"quantum-computing-we-are-screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing: we are screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">note i am not gonna do any research prior to this article if you wanna have facts go to npr or smth idk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft has 8 qubits. EIGHT. that&#8217;s more qubits than thanos has infinity stones. the nutters at microsoft plan to have a &#8216;consumer&#8217; (yeah, sure, buddy) ready quantum computer device ready by 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TWENTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TWENTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NINE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by TWENTY TWENTY NINE we will have consumer ready devices capable of breaking as much as a 1024 bit rsa key, the ol&#8217; reliable for digital security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by TWENTY TWENTY NINE we will be able to crack an ecc key with 256 bits of security, essentially BREAKING bitcoin and other blockchain tech with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TWENTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TWENTY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NINE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">we are screwed!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like im not even gonna pretend that the new pqc sig options are optimal for anything other than https and whatnot. the minimum is 1024 bits. FOR A BLOCKCHAIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1024 bits<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ON A BLOCKCHAIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WE ARE SCREWED!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WE ARE COOKED!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WE ARE FRIED!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there is no way in HECK that we will be able to fit a 1024 bit key onto a BLOCKCHAIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ok thats all goodbyte cybercat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>note i am not gonna do any research prior to this article if you wanna have facts go to npr or smth idk Microsoft has 8 qubits. EIGHT. that&#8217;s more qubits than thanos has infinity stones. the nutters at microsoft plan to have a &#8216;consumer&#8217; (yeah, sure, buddy) ready quantum computer device ready by 2029.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Quantum Computing: we are screwed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecyber.cat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}