CommentRe:So what's new? (Score 1)61
Yeah, references to saturated fat, red meat, it's just another cut/paste cherry picked 'story' from the 1960s that misses the last 50 years of nutrition research.
Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption (thequantuminsider.com) 52
UPDATE:Forbes writes that China hasn't broken military encryption. While factoring a 50-bit integer is an impressive technical achievement, it's important to note that RSA encryption commonly uses key sizes of 2048 bits or higher. The difficulty of factoring increases exponentially with the size of the number, meaning that the gap between 50-bit and 2048-bit integers is astronomically large...
The advances do not equate to a scalable method for breaking RSA encryption as it is used in practical applications today."
Long-time Slashdot schwit1 originally wrote: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world's first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a "real and substantial threat" to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers.
Despite the slow progress in general-purpose quantum computing, which currently poses no threat to modern cryptography, scientists have been exploring various attack approaches on specialised quantum computers. In the latest work led by Wang Chao, of Shanghai University, the team said it used a quantum computer produced by Canada's D-Wave Systems to successfully breach cryptographic algorithms.
Using the D-Wave Advantage, they successfully attacked the Present, Gift-64 and Rectangle algorithms -- all representative of the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) structure, which forms part of the foundation for advanced encryption standard (AES) widely used in the military and finance. AES-256, for instance, is considered the best encryption available and often referred to as military-grade encryption. While the exact passcode is not immediately available yet, it is closer than ever before, according to the study. "This is the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use today," they said in the peer-reviewed paper.
The advances do not equate to a scalable method for breaking RSA encryption as it is used in practical applications today."
Long-time Slashdot schwit1 originally wrote: Chinese scientists have mounted what they say is the world's first effective attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. The breakthrough poses a "real and substantial threat" to the long-standing password-protection mechanism employed across critical sectors, including banking and the military, according to the researchers.
Despite the slow progress in general-purpose quantum computing, which currently poses no threat to modern cryptography, scientists have been exploring various attack approaches on specialised quantum computers. In the latest work led by Wang Chao, of Shanghai University, the team said it used a quantum computer produced by Canada's D-Wave Systems to successfully breach cryptographic algorithms.
Using the D-Wave Advantage, they successfully attacked the Present, Gift-64 and Rectangle algorithms -- all representative of the SPN (Substitution-Permutation Network) structure, which forms part of the foundation for advanced encryption standard (AES) widely used in the military and finance. AES-256, for instance, is considered the best encryption available and often referred to as military-grade encryption. While the exact passcode is not immediately available yet, it is closer than ever before, according to the study. "This is the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use today," they said in the peer-reviewed paper.
CommentRe:Well, that certainly did it! (Score 1)54
Art connects humans, it's a shared experience, meaningful on both ends. Putting AI into the creators seat destroies it's soul.
CommentNo wonder the 2024 rules are so blah (Score 1)54
2024 rules, just enough changes to screw up existing characters, and nothing interesting or creative. Yup, sounds like AI generated crap.
CommentRe:The guy has class (Score 1)687
Been researching the other candidates now, I'm gonna say one of the swing-state options sounds best to me, Andy Beshear, Roy Cooper, Mark Kelly, and Josh Shapiro all seem like good choices.
CommentRe:The guy has class (Score 1)687
Ahh, gotcha, thanks. Well, hmm, now I actually have to go research the alternatives.
CommentRe: The guy has class (Score 1)687
Buttigieg would be my choice for president or VP, but I think that there's too much homophobia for him to be elected. I don't want another Ralph Nader.
CommentRe:The guy has class (Score 1)687
I honestly don't know who these undecided voters are, or how they could not have an opinion one way or another. Newsom goes on Fox news debating Republicans on their own turf, and holds his own, so that's why I'm partial to him.
CommentRe:The guy has class (Score 3, Insightful)687
As a Californian, I'm perfectly fine with Kamala and am rooting for her to choose Newsom as a running mate. I don't want a good progressive, forward thinking candidate right now, I want a pair of attack dogs who will tear Trump and the white supremacist party new assholes.
CommentRe: the freshest clickbait (Score 1)613
30% non-refundable credit nowadays, 1000 max, not bad but far from free.
CommentRe: the freshest clickbait (Score 1)613
Realistically, why would anyone do that?
CommentRe:Says more about Wells Fargo than the Employees (Score 2)115
Wells Fargo is many, many different workplaces, get a good manager and you have a good workplace as for as long as that manager can protect you from the useless upper management.
CommentRe:Says more about Wells Fargo than the Employees (Score 1)115
Used a mouse mover for years at Wells Fargo, not to pretend to do work, but because I worked remotely and the company laptop would time out and screenlock after 5 minutes. However, everyone communicated through instant messenger, so being able to see messages pop up from across the room at home was invaluable.
Anyway, agree with it being an excuse to fire people, they did not fire me for setting up a http tunnel and running a game server on office machines so....
CommentRe:Unnecessary (Score 1)55
Oh yeah, I can see the management AI bot now.
Talk about a nothing setup, I can't imagine it would take more than a line or 2 of AI instructions to replicate 99% of upper management. All it needs is a nice set of formal work clothes
CommentRe:In 12 months? (Score 1)68
Yeah, and what we are saying is that's not true, it seems laughably bad now, and does not require 12 months. Switched to google Gemeni a while ago.
