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Quantum Computers and Code Breaking

05/13/2005 2:05 PM

Physicists at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a crucial step in a procedure that could enable future quantum computers to break commonly used encryption codes.
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BRodda
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More power....

05/16/2005 9:52 AM

So soon we will have quantum generated codes that take forever to be broken by quantum computers and stability will have been restored....

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