We have been kidding ourselves for so long now, with the 1024 bit RSA keys. We know well enough how TI did their evil deeds. We fought back and lost. TI has now since increased to 2048 bit since.

This has gone from impossible to impossible.

Even supercomputing servers will take an unpractical amount of time. Why then am I telling you that the Nspire may now be *possible* to be cracked?

Guys and lobsters, I present to you the QUANTUM COMPUTER:



- http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html
- http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dw_homepage.html

If this product was to be put in a server, This just might be able to crack the uncrackable.

....The bad part is, how much will this thing cost us?! let alone 10 of these things!

That simply looks expensive.  I think we would seriously have better luck making our own calculators than that, it would cost 10x less and would be more profitable.  (of course, neither are really practical, just saying yours is even less practical mostly due to $$$ constraints)

expensive. We could make a lot of our own calcs for that money. I'll wait till these become affordable

Well yeah, that would be possible with quantum computers. Of course, you can't have one just to crack 2048-bit keys. You should use it for something else too. Or just ask one of the companies who bought it to compute it for you.

Well yeah, that would be possible with quantum computers. Of course, you can't have one just to crack 2048-bit keys. You should use it for something else too. Or just ask one of the companies who bought it to compute it for you.

the only one in the world that bought it is lockheed martin.

yeah that's what I read too: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/loser-dwave-does-not-quantum-compute

OMG, A COMMERCIAL QUANTUM COMPUTER!

If we start trying this, expect a new TI-Nspire line in 2 years that uses a 4096 key.