{"id":28754,"date":"2025-05-27T10:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28754"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:31:35","slug":"google-warns-quantum-computers-could-crack-bitcoin-like-encryption-20-times-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28754","title":{"rendered":"Google Warns Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin-Like Encryption 20 Times Faster Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New research by\u00a0<strong>Google<\/strong> suggested that RSA encryption, a critical security feature used in securing <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), may be more susceptible to quantum computing attacks than previously anticipated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: \u00a0<strong>Google Quantum AI<\/strong>\u00a0researcher\u00a0<strong>Craig Gidney<\/strong>\u00a0published a new paper indicating that RSA encryption could be broken with\u00a020 times fewer quantum resources\u00a0than previously estimated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe published a preprint demonstrating that 2048-bit RSA encryption could theoretically be broken by a quantum computer with 1 million noisy qubits running for one week. This is a 20-fold decrease in the number of qubits from our previous estimate,\u201d Gidney wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>A qubit is the basic unit of information used to encode data in quantum computing, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45613248\/google-warns-quantum-computers-could-crack-bitcoin-like-encryption-20-times-faster-than-ex\" alt=\"Google\" warns quantum computers could crack bitcoin-like encryption times faster than expected>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by\u00a0Google suggested that RSA encryption, a critical security feature used in securing Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), may be more susceptible to quantum computing attacks than previously anticipated. What Happened: \u00a0Google Quantum AI\u00a0researcher\u00a0Craig Gidney\u00a0published a new paper indicating that RSA encryption could be broken with\u00a020 times fewer quantum resources\u00a0than previously estimated. \u201cWe published a preprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}