In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor showed that quantum computers can efficiently run algorithms that will quickly solve prime-number factoring problems. As a result, quantum computers ...

The buzz is deafening – promises of breakthroughs in encryption, pharmaceuticals, and financial modeling fill headlines.

A quantum computer, however, can check many keys at the same time, making it much faster at unlocking the right one. Developed by Peter Shor in 1994, Shor’s Algorithm is a special trick that ...

In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor showed that quantum computers can efficiently run algorithms that will quickly solve prime-number factoring problems. As a result, quantum computers ...

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 ...

A decade passed between the time the famed physicist Richard Feynman proposed the idea of quantum computing in the early 1980s and when the mathematician Peter Shor described a useful quantum ...

Quantum computers are neither stable enough nor powerful enough to achieve very much at all at the moment, warns Professor Peter Cochrane ... algorithms at present (Shor's, Stein's/Grover ...

Recently, Project Eleven (a quantum computing research group) announced a 1 bitcoin reward for the first team able to complete a challenge to demonstrate breaking a ECC (elliptic curve cryptograph) ...

As quantum computers gain ascendancy, the cryptographic algorithms we use to keep data secure will become obsolete. What will replace them?