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Our estimate for factoring RSA-2048 with cat qubits: pushing the frontier

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Alice & Bob has published an estimate that a quantum computer built on its cat-qubit architecture could factor RSA-2048, the encryption underlying much of today's secure internet, in about three days using roughly 23,000 physical qubits.

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