A quantum computer at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM Topics: Computer Science, Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Quantum Computer A team of researchers in China has unveiled a technique that — theoretically — could crack the most commonly used types of digital privacy using a rudimentary quantum computer. The technique worked inContinue reading “QAOA and Privacy…”
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City-Sized, Secure Quantum Network…
Topics: Cryptography, Futurism, Internet of Things, Modern Physics, Quantum Computer, Quantum Mechanics Quantum cryptography promises a future in which computers communicate with one another over ultrasecure links using the razzle-dazzle of quantum physics. But scaling up the breakthroughs in research labs to networks with a large number of nodes has proved difficult. Now an international teamContinue reading “City-Sized, Secure Quantum Network…”