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.

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum computers, on the other hand ... This promise is based on a quantum factoring algorithm proposed in 1994 by Peter ...

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 ...

Shor’s algorithm is a quantum algorithm widely believed to have the potential to break encryption systems like ECC if a large and accurate enough quantum computer is built. Trending: It’s no ...

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) ...

Quantum computing studies theoretical computation systems (quantum computers) that make direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on ...