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for a 10x bigger key the quantum computer needs to be 10x bigger - linear scaling.

the time to run the algorithm has cubic scaling - 1000x more time required.

but it remains exponentially faster, just 1 minute becomes 1 day, 1 day becomes 3 years. still "easily" broken



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