Chinese Scientists’ Claims for New Quantum Code-Breaking Algorithm Raise Eyebrows in the Us

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But It Is Commonly Believed That Such a Machine Would Need to Handle Millions of Qubits, the Basic Unit of Quantum Information, to Hack a Bank Account Protected by State-of-the-Art Encryption.

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