A quick rule-of-thumb: if 'military-grade encryption' is mentioned, the author likely has no domain knowledge.

Further the article claims that SPNs are used in RSA... which is completely wrong and indicates no domain knowledge.

The article has completely mis-interpreted the paper. The paper is written in Chinese but with an English abstract - the article seems to have just pulled keywords out.

I wonder whether a LLM hallucination is at play somewhere???

The article does not mention AES

Anyone has any other link on the topic? I realise this is fresh but it feels significant enough that coverage should be broad pretty quickly.

Replying to myself: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/china_quantum_attack/

This doesn't sound as dramatic as the original article might have implied, but a pretty significant advancement nonetheless.

No they didn’t