Recent Progress in Quantum Computing Relevant to Internet Security

ePrint Report: Recent Progress in Quantum Computing Relevant to Internet Security

Hilarie Orman

Quantum computers at some future date might be able
to factor large numbers, and this poses a threat to some public key
and key exchange systems in use today. This overview of recent
progress in devising quantum algorithms and building quantum computing devices is meant to help technologists understand the difficult problems that quantum engineers are working on, where advances have been made, and how those things …

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