23,000 Qubits to Break RSA-2048: What That Number Actually Means

Last week a number travelled fast through the security world: 22,593. That is how many physical qubits the French quantum company Alice & Bob estimates Shor's algorithm would need to factor RSA-2048, in about 3. 14 days, on its cat-qubit architecture.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/indirectb/23000-qubits-to-break-rsa-2048-what-that-number-actually-means-5d77)