Google says its breakthrough quantum chip can't break modern cryptography

Image: Google Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today's systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google tells The Verge its new "breakthrough" Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that. "The Willow chip is not capable of breaking modern cryptography," Google Quantum AI director and COO Charina Chou tells The Verge. A so-called "cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer," or CRQC, could "jeopardize civilian and military communications, undermine supervisory and cont...