Could be related to the Russian announcement, a few weeks ago, that they have built a 30 qubit computer (which may or may not be reasonably true – in the field, everybody has a different definition of "qubit", "computer" and even "have").
Whats mysterious? When I led a team working on some government funded encryption stuff a few years ago, everyone in gov was terrified of post-quantum cryptography. 10x a day I had to answer questions about PQKD.<p>Maybe some very well funded quantum projects have made certain implementations broken- but it never really mattered, because why have PQKD when you have XKCD. lol<p>Id still employ social engineering, deepfakes, and violence over the cost of building a machine.<p>By the way, we all know the Cloudflare lava lamps? I built a laser diode/beam splitter random number generator at home, fun toy.
Hmmm.... I wonder if someone has finally cracked RSA or its friends.<p>I also remember a conspiracy theory that Bitcoin was actually made as a litmus test to know if\when someone somewhere achieves quantum supremacy (because then they would be able to crack the block....or something like that