But they appear to need a specific design of molecule to get 7 qubits - so this isn't going to scale. I like the quote "The first quantum computing applications would likely to be co-processors" -- as if people were thinking the market was about to be flooded with 1Gqb SIMMs.
But if they do manage to build a 16kqb machine (or however large a box one would need to brute-force RSA), this would lead to some serious asymmetry. We keep hearing about quantum crypto, but AFAIK that requires a special link between computers, and can only be done at the transport layer. Hardly something you can run over IP. Am I right? If so, I would like to wish everyone a happy goldfish bowl, like at the end of the Asimov story...
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Gulp.
Date: 2001-12-19 03:16 pm (UTC)But they appear to need a specific design of molecule to get 7 qubits - so this isn't going to scale. I like the quote "The first quantum computing applications would likely to be co-processors" -- as if people were thinking the market was about to be flooded with 1Gqb SIMMs.
But if they do manage to build a 16kqb machine (or however large a box one would need to brute-force RSA), this would lead to some serious asymmetry. We keep hearing about quantum crypto, but AFAIK that requires a special link between computers, and can only be done at the transport layer. Hardly something you can run over IP. Am I right? If so, I would like to wish everyone a happy goldfish bowl, like at the end of the Asimov story...