Researcher Claims to Crack RSA-2048 with Quantum Computer

Recent discussion [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38127660

Bollocks

Agree. I'm more interested in the aftermath of trying to publish something like this.

There's a nice comment (by clipsy) on an earlier submission [1]

Absolute looney toons garbage. Check the list of previous publications and you'll find that in the past 3 months(!) the author claims to have broken RSA, disproved the existence of dark matter, and shown that irrational and complex numbers do not exist.

Good of clipsy to do that research, as soon as I found that he calls himself "Ed Gerck, PhD, PhD" [2] I laughed and walked away.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38092272

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgerck

Haha this dude is mentally ill or Einstein 2.0

The mentally ill all imagine that they're Einstein 2.0.

They're all telling us that one of these days an actual Einstein 2.0 will come along, and then we'll all be sorry. I suppose it's possible. But I'm quite certain that today is not that day, and I'm not the least sorry.

Author claims that they completed the crack with off the shelf hardware, e.g. cell phone and no specialized equipment.