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Quantum annealing is significantly easier than the full quantum computers required to break public-key encryption, or run Grover's algorithm. Quantum annealers are commercially available right now with thousands of qubits, and seem to be advancing quickly. If they really could break AES or find hash collisions with annealers, that would be a pretty big deal.


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