# Quantum hardening

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**Created:** [January 9, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/quantum-hardening/2123 "2024-01-09T23:13:31Z")
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### Author: ![jasonsprouse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.osmosis.zone/jasonsprouse/32/1600_2.png) [@jasonsprouse](https://forum.osmosis.zone/u/jasonsprouse)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.osmosis.zone/t/quantum-hardening/2123/3 "2024-01-10T20:40:19Z")

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TL&DR  
Good feedback. It’s well known that quantum computers could be a vulnerability to cryptographic systems with their current architectures, either by brute force or by implementing shor or gover’s algorithm - hence the title, **QUNTUM HARDENING.**

Classical computers that run slices of a quantum function don’t run as efficiently as naturally derived quantum computers, but they are stable.

**THIS WAS 7 YEARS AGO** - apply something like Moore’s Law to the amount of quibits a systems like this posses over that time frame, and although that is probably top secret classified information - we can imagine that these systems are well beyond 56 quibits now.  
[IBM Simulates a 56-Qubit Machine - IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibms-quantum-leap-simulates-56qubit-machine)

I’ve known for several years that DARPA is running a program researching this - it’s not like they don’t make public the programs advancing the quantum/classical architecture.  
[DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough](https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-12-06)  
The program pursued a hybrid concept to combine **intermediate-sized “noisy”— or error-prone — quantum processors** with classical systems focused specifically on solving optimization problems of interest\* to defense and commercial industry.

Introducing quantum resistance into systems sooner is better than later.

- Biggest threat
  - Loss of user funds

Solutions shared above.

> [@jasonsprouse](#):
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> Also,
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> DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is currently working on developing **Quantum-Inspired (QI) classical solvers**. These solvers are mixed-signal systems that use classical analog components and digital logic to emulate the physics of dynamic systems.  
> They are projected to outperform both conventional and quantum computers by over a factor of 10,000
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> [Solving Defense Optimization Problems with Increased Computational Efficiency (darpa.mil)](https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-10-04)

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