2024/11/25 by Luis Cano, Ginés Carrascal de las Heras, Cano, Luis Sánchez +5
Engineering · Mathematics · #Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research #Control Systems and Identification #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Fault Detection and Control Systems #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.16632
openalex publication_date 2024/11/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Current asymmetric cryptography is based on the principle that while classical computers can efficiently multiply large integers, the inverse operation, factorization, is significantly more complex. For sufficiently large integers, this factorization process can take in classical computers hundreds or even thousands of years to complete. However, there exist some quantum algorithms that might be able to factor integers theoretically -- the theory works properly, but the hardware requirements are far away from what we can build nowadays -- and, for instance, Yan, B. et al. ([14]) claim to have constructed a hybrid algorithm which could be able even to challenge RSA-2048 in the near future. This work analyses this article and replicates the experiments they carried out, but with a different quantum method (VQE), being able to factor the number 1961.