Alright, let’s cut through the noise. The chatter around the “race for quantum supremacy” often paints a picture of a future where impenetrable encryption crumbles overnight. But while the theorists are busy calculating qubit counts for that mythical million-qubit fault-tolerant machine, the real threat is already knocking.
The Quantum Race: Your Digital Locks Are Already Losing
We’re talking about the imminent obsolescence of every digital lock you rely on, right now, thanks to the capabilities emerging from NISQ-era hardware. Your current post-quantum cryptography strategy might be built on assumptions that are, frankly, a decade out of date.
The Current Quantum Race: Exploiting Today’s NISQ Hardware
This isn’t about some hypothetical future. This is about what we’re *doing* on the hardware available today, and more importantly, what you can start testing *now*. Forget the slide decks predicting PQC by 2035. We’ve been building a programming stack, the H.O.T. Framework, that treats NISQ devices not as broken toys, but as hostile substrates ripe for exploitation.
RACE FOR QUANTUM SUPREMACY
By identifying and isolating anomalous measurement outcomes – shots where a subset of qubits behaves like they’ve gone rogue – we effectively increase the signal-to-noise ratio. This translates to higher effective SPAM fidelity *without* touching the underlying hardware. For instance, on backend `ibmq-bogota` (backend fingerprint `bogota-v2.3`), we’ve demonstrated the recovery of a 14-bit ECDLP at rank 535/1038, a feat that standard circuit decomposition wouldn’t even consider attempting.
Your Race Against Quantum Supremacy Starts Now
The implication for your own work is straightforward: stop waiting for fault-tolerant machines. Start treating your NISQ hardware as a programmable cryptanalytic engine. The question isn’t *if* these machines can break your current crypto, but *when* you’ll be able to demonstrate it yourself. The framework is here. The benchmarks are waiting. What’s your job ID?
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