There goes public-key encryption...

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Fri Dec 21 07:34:01 2001


Andre Esteves wrote:

> There goes public-key encription....

Why?

> Quantum computer with 5 bits demonstrated:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

How well can this concept be scaled up to sizes significant for cracking
encryption keys?

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