Could trapping tiny ions crack the toughest codes?.
Computers that harness the weirdness of quantum mechanics could smash conventional encryption systems by factoring gigantic numbers fast-and factoring the product of two large prime numbers is the only way standard codes can be broken. The job would take conventional computers decades, not minutes....
| Publicado en: | IEEE spectrum 40, 3 (2003). |
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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