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How Close Is the Quantum Threat to Encryption? — October 30, 2026

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Alice & Bob’s compiled estimate puts a possible RSA-2048 attack at 22,593 physical cat qubits and 3.14 days, while the required fault-tolerant hardware remains a projection. We also cover IQM’s full-chip entanglement result, a Shionogi research prize, Infleqtion’s at-sea clock test, and IonQ news.

IQM Demonstrates Entanglement Across a Complete 54-Qubit Processor — The Quantum Insider

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