In 1994, a Bell Labs mathematician named Peter Shor cooked up an algorithm with frightening potential. By vastly reducing the computing resources required to factor large numbers—to break them ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization ...

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...

Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes as quantum computers become more capable and handle more qubits without errors.

The Magic of Shor’s Algorithm In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor revealed a quantum algorithm that can actually derive a private key from a public key. Shor’s algorithm achieves this by ...

Then in 1995, 25 years ago this month, applied mathematician Peter Shor published a paper 1 that changed that perception. Shor’s paper showed how quantum computers could overcome a crucial problem.

by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it takes to find the prime factors of ...

When the Robert Redford film Sneakers hit theaters in 1992, most moviegoers had never heard of the Internet. They’d have guessed “World Wide Web” was a horror film involving spiders.