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 ...

Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

Building a utility-scale quantum computer that can crack one of the most vital cryptosystems—elliptic curves—doesn’t require ...
PC Magazine

Shor's algorithm

A quantum computer algorithm that is used to find the prime factors in an encryption key. Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes ...
NextBigFuture

Optical Quantum Computing and a Complete Methods Set for Scalable Ion Trap Quantum Information Processing

1. New Scientist reports that the codebreaking quantum computer algorithm (shors algorithm for factoring) has been run on a silicon chip. Journal Science abstract: Shor’s Quantum Factoring Algorithm ...