There goes public-key encryption...

[Marc Mutz]

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On Thursday 20 December 2001 21:18, Johan Wevers wrote:
> 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?

The red sponge has a surface protein that has a molecular weight of more=20
than 1'000'000 u. So you just keep adding CH_2 groups to the molecule?

Don't think Moore's law only holds for silicon chips. Expect the=20
register size of QC's to equally grow exponentially. But since QC's=20
operate on all possible values of the register at once, you only need=20
to push the regster size to 4k bits. If you reached that, 128kbits will=20
be doable, too. Imagine how long a silicon computer needs to even=20
create auch a key...


Marc

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