QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

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QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

IBM SCIENTISTS BUILD MACHINE THAT SOLVES MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS WITH QUANTUM MECHANICS

NUMBER 15 FACTORED

FACTORS ARE 3 AND 5

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

Comments

Re: Gulp.

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For the record, I think quantum cryptography is silly. For provable security, you have to exchange secret keys in advance to get the authentication working, and if you're going to do that then I don't think the massive inconvenience buys you much over perfectly ordinary symmetric techniques.