Google Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Hardware Needed to Break RSA Encryption

Researchers demonstrate how optimized algorithms reduce the threshold to crack internet encryption from 20 million physical qubits to fewer than one million.

How Google Quantum AI optimized Shor's Algorithm to crack RSA-2048 with just 1 million qubits, accelerating the threat timeline. (Graphic by flingjore.com)

The timeline for a quantum computing threat …