{"id":197962,"date":"2024-10-19T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/in-a-global-first-quantum-computers-crack-rsa-and-aes-data-encryption"},"modified":"2024-10-19T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:22:25","slug":"in-a-global-first-quantum-computers-crack-rsa-and-aes-data-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/in-a-global-first-quantum-computers-crack-rsa-and-aes-data-encryption","title":{"rendered":"In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-global-first-quantum-computers-crack-rsa-and-aes-data-encryption2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Chinese researchers, led by Wang Chao from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.shu.edu.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shanghai University<\/a>, has demonstrated that D-Wave\u2019s quantum annealing computers can crack encryption methods that safeguard sensitive global data.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cjc.ict.ac.cn\/online\/onlinepaper\/wc-202458160402.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese Journal of Computers<\/a>, emphasizes that quantum machines are closer than expected to threatening widely used cryptographic systems, including RSA and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).<\/p>\n<p>The research team\u2019s experiments focused on leveraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D-Wave\u2019s quantum technology<\/a> to solve cryptographic problems. In their paper, titled \u201cQuantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage,\u201d the researchers explained how quantum annealing could transform cryptographic attacks into combinatorial optimization problems, making them more manageable for quantum systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Chinese researchers, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, has demonstrated that D-Wave\u2019s quantum annealing computers can crack encryption methods that safeguard sensitive global data. This breakthrough, published in the Chinese Journal of Computers, emphasizes that quantum machines are closer than expected to threatening widely used cryptographic systems, including RSA and Advanced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}