Dina Genkina;Andrew Moseman;Katherine Bourzac;Laura Hautala;Matthew Hutson
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Today, almost all data on the Internet—including bank transactions, medical records, and secure chats—is protected with an encryption scheme called RSA (named after its creators Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman). This scheme is based on a simple fact—it is virtually impossible to calculate the prime factors of a large number in a reasonable amount of time, even using the world's most powerful supercomputer. Unfortunately, large quantum computers, if and when they are built, would find this task a breeze, thus undermining the security of the entire Internet. Another common encryption scheme, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), is similarly vulnerable to quantum computers.
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