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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•2 years agoFind a computationally cheap way to factor large numbers --> banking system collapses
minus-square@Byelink10•2 years agoThey would just use OTPs and would be fine. You’d start having armored trucks drive around with hard drives full of keys, but it would be ok.
minus-squareJulianlinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoNow I really want a dystopian novel about a world where p=np was proved and how the world adjusts to it.
minus-squareBilbo BagginslinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoIsn’t that what quantum computing is all about?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoto be fair, the earth would probably be pretty happy about that - humans just wouldn’t be all too happy…
Find a computationally cheap way to factor large numbers --> banking system collapses
They would just use OTPs and would be fine. You’d start having armored trucks drive around with hard drives full of keys, but it would be ok.
Now I really want a dystopian novel about a world where p=np was proved and how the world adjusts to it.
https://lemmy.world/comment/2277720
Isn’t that what quantum computing is all about?
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to be fair, the earth would probably be pretty happy about that - humans just wouldn’t be all too happy…