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New findings shorten the road to cryptographically relevant quantum computers

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New findings shorten the road to cryptographically relevant quantum computers
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Celebrity gossip might break the Internet, but not in the way that quantum computers could. “The advent of quantum computers poses a critical threat, as they could break widely deployed encryption schemes,” warns Lily Chen, a cryptography expert from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Systems at risk include banking encryption, digital signatures, secure messaging, secure shell tunnelling, cryptocurrency and more.
Today’s quantum computers are still too small and error

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