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My Quantum Algorithm Won't Break the Internet… Yet


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Peter Shor, MIT

"If you start factoring 10-digit numbers then it's going to start getting scary."

Credit: Charles H. Bennett

Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can't break its cryptosystems. But the quantum algorithm you devised has the potential to do just that.

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