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I love how it did not at all explain what they broke. It mentioned "rectangle"? Whats that? How does it have any relation to AES? Because AES is NOT vulnerable to quantum computing. Did they get the key by knowing the ciphertext and the original data?
I have not been following the quantum computing attacks on cryptography, so I'm not current here at all.
I can believe that current AES in general use cannot be broken by existing quantum computers.
But if what you're saying is that AES cannot be broken by quantum computing at all, that doesn't seem to be what various pages out there say.
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6712/is-aes-256-a-post-quantum-secure-cipher-or-not
Bump AES to a min 1024 and you buy time.
Technically correct. You would buy time well past the end of the universe. Advances in either quantum or conventional computers would not change this. There are theoretical limits at play.
Now, maybe you can find a way to substantially reduce the difficulty of breaking it over brute force. Cryptographers have been trying to break AES for 30 years now and haven't found one that does more than marginal improvement. But it's possible.