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Study: 10,000 qubits could crack key encryption sooner than expected

Researchers affiliated with Caltech and the quantum computing startup Oratomic have published a preprint claiming that Shor’s ...
Martin Cid Magazine

Shor’s algorithm resource requirements for RSA-2048 fell by an order of magnitude in under a year

The encryption protecting global banking, government communications, and digital identity does not fail when a quantum ...
Quanta Magazine

Thirty Years Later, a Speed Boost for Quantum Factoring

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...
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Quantum computers need just 10,000 qubits to break the most secure encryption, scientists warn

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.