Quantum cryptography became unavoidable after algorithm breakthrough
Shor’s algorithm made our idea unavoidable
after Shor’s 1994 quantum algorithm
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Gilles BrassardUniversity of Montreal · computer scientist
On the same topic: Quantum & frontier physics
More →“I don’t know of any mundane way to explain it.”
“I thought it was a little bit crazy, but I thought it was the least crazy of all the possibilities.”
“Arora also explains why quantum computers could threaten today's encryption — and why hackers may already be collecting data to decrypt later.”