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bvf

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7. No, there'll be quantum encryption as well,

Reply to Kablooie (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 02:19 AM

Dec 2015

which will effectively make communication systems more, not less, secure. The mechanism escapes me offhand, but I think it has to do with enabling near-instantaneous detection of any attempts at intrusion in the pathway.

Well, that's what I've read, anyway.

ETA: I've heard that D-Wave's technology was really not based on QC, but some sort of hybrid of QC and conventional processing. (That was in the effort's infancy, IIRC. Things may have changed since then.)

Anyway, science and evolution march on, and I love reading about this stuff, even though a lot of it goes "Whoosh!"

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Google, NASA: Our quantum computer is 100 million times faster than normal PC [View all] bananas Dec 2015 OP

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I wonder how well KSP would run on it. n/t Gore1FL Dec 2015 #4

waterboarding is a lot faster than cracking n/t w0nderer Dec 2015 #5

There goes computer security. Kablooie Dec 2015 #6

No, there'll be quantum encryption as well, bvf Dec 2015 #7

Anything previously encrypted with standard encryption though, that is saved on nsa computers, can.. AZ Progressive Dec 2015 #9

True, if anyone manages to implement bvf Dec 2015 #11

16 bits (x'DB59') Elmer S. E. Dump Dec 2015 #15

Exactly my point, which I probably wasn't very clear on. bvf Dec 2015 #21

You were clear. I was just supporting your conclusion. Elmer S. E. Dump Dec 2015 #25

Thanks for that! bvf Dec 2015 #27

But who will have quantum computers that can create the quantum encryption? Kablooie Dec 2015 #19

The technology will eventually work its way down bvf Dec 2015 #23

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They should also get a solid state hard drive for that baby. Nye Bevan Dec 2015 #16

42 MosheFeingold Dec 2015 #18

lol n/t w0nderer Dec 2015 #20

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heh,,, I remember I was trying to wrap my head around that, but my head exploded PersonNumber503602 Dec 2015 #24