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Quantum-computing pioneer warns of complacency over Internet security – Nature.com
Nature talks to Peter Shor 25 years after he showed how to make quantum computations feasible — and how they could endanger our data.
Applied mathematician Peter Shor worked out how to overcome a major problem in quantum computing.Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION
When physicists first thought up quantum computers in the 1980s, they sounded like a nice theoretical idea, but one probably destined to remain on paper. Then in 1995, 25 years ago this month, applied mathematician Peter Shor published a paper1 that changed that perception.
Shors paper showed how quantum computers could overcome a crucial problem. The machines would process information…
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