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Jun 6, 2019

How Peter Shor’s Algorithm is Destined to Put an End to Modern Encryption

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RSA Encryption is an essential safeguard for our online communications. It was also destined to fail even before the Internet made RSA necessary, thanks the work of Peter Shor, whose algorithm in 1994 proved quantum computers could actually be used to solve problems classical computers could not.

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