Starry Sky Technology planned to build a quantum supercomputing center in Shanghai, named "Star Sea-1," to support the Virtual Reality Network and cloud computing services throughout East China.
The moment the news broke, it caused a sensation across the internet.
Although quantum computers had supposedly made a major breakthrough every so often over the twenty-odd years since the millennium, constantly shocking this person or terrifying that one, they had never actually left the laboratory.
This time, however, not only had the number of qubits increased by an order of magnitude, but the technology had also stepped out of the lab.
Barring any surprises, Star Sea-1 would become Hua Nation's first commercial quantum computer!
And the world's first, too!
[We're screwed! The financial system's encryption algorithms are basically all RSA right now! Factoring products of large primes is as easy as addition and subtraction for a quantum computer. At this rate, banks might as well declare bankruptcy!]
[Does this mean I can borrow money through Huabei now and never pay it back? Waiting for an answer. It's urgent!]
[Don't spout nonsense if you don't know what you're talking about. Our country already replaced traditional encryption algorithms with quantum encryption algorithms ages ago. Once quantum fiber-optic connections become widespread and unconditionally secure networks cover everything, even alien computers won't help, let alone quantum computers!]
[So you're saying the safest banks in the world are here in our country now?]
[Depends on how you look at it. Current quantum encryption algorithms can still defend against cyberattacks launched by quantum computers with fewer than 2,000 qubits. Besides... this quantum computer is in our country. What are you worried about? Is Professor Lu going to hack your bank card?]
[Am I the only one concerned about quantum cloud computing services? What if criminals exploit them?]