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Quantum Computing Talk at WPI, 8/12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Aug 3 18:24:33 1998
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 17:13:11 -0400
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WPI Cryptography and Information Security Seminar
Kris Gaj
George Mason University
(with U. Rochester until July '98)
QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND CLASSICAL SUPERCOMPUTERS AS A
THREAT TO EXISTING CIPHERS
Wednesday, August 12
4:00 pm, AK 108
(refreshments at 3:45 pm)
Quantum computers, if ever built, will be able to factor numbers
beyond the reach of traditional methods. The development of quantum
computation would mean the demise of RSA and other public key
cryptosystems. We show the main idea of Shor's quantum factoring
algorithm and assess the complexity of the circuit implementing the
algorithm. We describe the current state of experimental quantum
computing and the most promising ideas concerning the implementation
of quantum logic.
Classical supercomputers has recently reached the computational power
of one teraflop (10^12 floating point operations per second). We will
discuss the current effort to built a petaflops scale computer (peta
= 10^15) based on the combination of advanced technologies such as
superconducting digital electronics, cryogenic CMOS, optical
switches, and holographic memories. Breaking existing ciphers is
certainly one of the primary applications of this new class of
computing machines.
For a Kris Gay's biography please check:
http://www.ee.rochester.edu/~ee492/bio/bio.html
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
