(Off topic) News on quantum computers cracking crypto

[Brian Mearns]

2009/9/10 Christoph Anton Mitterer
<christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de>:
> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 10:12 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote:
>> In case you missed it, using 15 as a key value is no longer a viable
>> option: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/chip-does-part-of-codecracking-quantum-algorithm
> Thank God! I've used 17 ;)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>

No you didn't, 17 is prime. =D

-Brian


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