5. Applications of quantum communications
5.1 In the short term: secure quantum communications
5.1.1 The Threat Posed by Quantum Computers to Cryptography
In 1994, Peter Shor, an American researcher, published an algorithm demonstrating that, once a sufficiently powerful quantum computer becomes available, it will be able to factor integers exponentially faster than the best known classical algorithms. This discovery poses a major threat to current asymmetric encryption protocols. Unlike classical key-establishment algorithms such as Diffie-Hellman,...
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Applications of quantum communications
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