Code Breaking
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Sourcery
2 statements about Code Breaking, every show
Shadbolt: Quantum codebreaking requires a larger system than commercial utility
“As far as we understand still, despite these new architectural results, algorithmic results, you still need a bigger computer to do code breaking than you do to tackle the commercially useful applications that we talked about earlier.”
Benjamin: Quantum codebreaking requires millions of physical qubits due to error correction
“Breaking codes is in the category of things that needs at least thousands of qubits. But because it's a big, tough, long-running task, it also needs this whole error correction thing to be going on. And that boosts the size of it, because once you say, oh, wai…”