[118522] in Cypherpunks
Re: Rumor of a working quantum computer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Enzo Michelangeli)
Thu Sep 30 20:17:45 1999
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From: "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net>
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 07:53:30 +0800
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Predictably enough, the URL for EIQC's web site is:
http://www.eiqc.org/
In the "news" section, they just mention Twinkle.
Enzo
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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.
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> 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.
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> The "special optical technology" sure sounds like someone has
> implemented Shamir's TWINKLE already.
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> [TWINKLE I can believe. Quantum computers sound fishy. --Perry]
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> Is there any truth to this?
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> http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.h
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