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Exactly, this method scales with the size of the quantum computer, so we could see RSA broken within a decade. And this technique could apply to a lot of other existing algorithms. The key part to keep in mind is that there is a lot of encrypted data that has been collected already that people simply had no way to decrypt. So, there are retroactive consequences here as well.
Yeah, but RSA has been considered insecure for a while now because this attack was theorized.
Still, I'm sure there is a lot of RSA encryption out there through hardware keys and ssl certs and such...