If China's claim is true, it means that this danger is now hovering over the whole world.


 Chinese researchers made a shocking claim this week. Computer security experts around the world are working hard to find out the truth. If the claim of Chinese researchers is correct, it would mean that China will be able to crack any online encryption (code ie password) in the world. Experts had previously predicted that it would take generations for any country to achieve such a capability. But if China's claim is correct, then it means that this danger is now hovering over the whole world. A detailed report on the claim was published in the British newspaper The Financial Times.


 The researchers who played a role in developing this method

 According to this report, a science research paper was published in China at the end of December. It specifies the method by which the RSA algorithm can be broken. This work can be done with a quantum computer of only 372 qubits. (The basic unit of quantum computing is the quantum bit, abbreviated as qubits). According to the information given in the paper, 24 researchers from various academic institutions and government laboratories have played a role in developing this method.


Biggest event in the history of computer science

 Computer security expert Roger Grimes has said that this research is a major moment in the history of computer security. It is a tall claim," he told the Financial Times. This would mean that one government would have access to the classified information of another government. If this claim is true then it is one of the biggest events in the history of computer science.


 It will take more than a decade to achieve this capability

 Other experts say the theory outlined in the research paper appears to have merit. But with the current potential of quantum technology, this seems difficult to do in practice. As far as I can tell, I don't think the Chinese paper is wrong, said Peter Shore, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. After his research, a new era of quantum computing research began. But breaking computer encryption with his method would require millions of qubits. According to scientists, it will take more than a decade to achieve this capability.


 Short told the Financial Times that the Chinese researchers did not specify how fast their algorithm would run. Since no such analysis has come to light, I suspect that much progress has not been made in what he claims to be. The research paper, published in China, is the second such claim in less than a year to raise concerns about online encryption.


 Last year German mathematician Klaus Peter Schnorr published an algorithm he claimed was more capable of breaking RSA codes. In fact, he even claimed that this algorithm could only be used by conventional computers to break encryption. But later it came to light that Schnorr's method did not work in practice.