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Re: [Cryptography] NSA and cryptanalysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Sat Aug 31 22:31:08 2013
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From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:01:25 -0400
To: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
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On Aug 31, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> ... It is both
> interesting and peculiar that so little news of quantum computing has been
> published since.
I don't understand this claim. Shor's work opened up a really hot new area that both CS people and physicists (and others as well) have rapidly jumped into. There's been a huge amount of publication on quantum computing and, more generally, the field of quantum information. No one - at least publicly - claims to know how to build a non-toy quantum computer here (the D-wave machine, if it's really doing quantum computation, is a special kind of machine and couldn't run Shor's algorithm, for example). But there are many reported advances on the physics. Simultaneously, there's quite a bit of published work on the algorithmic/complexity side as well.
A look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer will readily confirm this. If you want to dig deeper, there's Scott Aaronson's blog at http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
-- Jerry
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