[118514] in Cypherpunks
Rumor of a working quantum computer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Sep 30 13:52:47 1999
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:00:06 -0400
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From: Keith Dawson <dawson@world.std.com>
Subject: Rumor of a working quantum computer
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Anyone heard word on this rumor? The Sunday Times story claims
that a European Institute of Quantum Computing Network has been
hastily formed to develop commercial banking codes based on
quantum entanglement.
The institute was founded a few weeks after news leaked from
the Israel's Weizmann Institute that it was using a mixture of
quantum computing and special optical technology to break
the RSA-512 code, the system used by the European banking
system. It claims it has developed a hand-held device that
can break the code in 12 microseconds.
The "special optical technology" sure sounds like someone has
implemented Shamir's TWINKLE already.
[TWINKLE I can believe. Quantum computers sound fishy. --Perry]
Is there any truth to this?
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.h
tml?1341861
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Keith Dawson dawson@world.std.com http://dawson.nu/
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