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New piece by @dangoodin takes a deeper look at recent claims by Chinese media about a “real and substantial” quantum computing “breakthrough” to attack substitution-permutation networks, the underlying algorithms of modern cryptography including AES. David Jao, Nadia Heninger, and Xavier Bonnetain weigh in.

TL;DR: Turns out, the death of modern cryptography is greatly exaggerated.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/the-sad-bizarre-tale-of-hype-fueling-fears-that-modern-cryptography-is-dead/