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Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?

Writer's picture: First TechnologyFirst Technology
Jul 19, 20221 min read

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 down into their multiples, like reducing 15 to 5 and 3—Shor’s algorithm threatened to upend many of our most popular methods of encryption.


 
 
 

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