Spies may be storing data to decrypt with a future quantum computer

By Matthew Sparkes

Quantum computers can’t ace encrypted networks – yet

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Intelligence agencies whitethorn beryllium intercepting encrypted messages and storing them successful the anticipation that they tin yet make a applicable quantum machine to ace them, a information researcher who has worked with the UK authorities has warned.

Although dozens of probe groups are presently trying to build a applicable quantum computer, nary has yet publically succeeded. Such a instrumentality could rapidly find the premier factors that serve arsenic the multiplicative gathering blocks of a number – for example, 3 and 7 are the prime factors of 21. …

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