by Marin Ivezic

From the article:
“[…]A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Tim Palmer, an emeritus professor of physics at Oxford, proposed that quantum computers might face a hard, physics-imposed ceiling of roughly 1,000 useful qubits — far too few, Palmer argued, to ever break RSA-2048.

[…]the paper doesn’t prove what many people think it proves. It proposes an unverified theoretical framework, builds on a gravitational collapse model whose simplest version has already been experimentally ruled out […]”