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US Intel Community Taps Encryption-Busting Tech Firm for Digital Spying

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US Intel Community Taps Encryption-Busting Tech Firm for Digital Spying

The venture capital arm of the CIA is buying in to a Canadian company that says it can access certain encrypted technologies...

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America’s Spies Want to Speed Up IBM’s Quest for a Quantum Computer

IBM has been working on quantum computers for decades, and now it has the support of IARPA, the U.S. intelligence community’s research agency...

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In quantum computing, a transistor consists of a single atom, which can exist as a sort of combination, or “superposition,” of 1 and 0 at the same time.
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Aren't quantum superpositions still just a theory?.... we will probably all have hovercars and robot assistants before thats a reality
 
dimensionallava said:
Aren't quantum superpositions still just a theory?.... we will probably all have hovercars and robot assistants before thats a reality
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No, but they are miles away from practical production and usage of superpositions. All we are really talking about is a Qubit (in the state of atoms, ions, photons, or electrons that end up as PC memory or processors.) We have the idea behind the mechanics of the process, what seems to be in current development is dealing with quantum superposition algorithms.

IBM is not the only one working on this, Google has been at it as well and perhaps even further along.
 
dimensionallava said:
Aren't quantum superpositions still just a theory?.... we will probably all have hovercars and robot assistants before thats a reality
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Actually, I read an article just yesterday that Google and NASA have determined that the quantum chip produced by a Canadian Company that belongs to Bezos and an investment company belonging to the CIA has been successful in tests. They think that it will take a number of years, but sounded optimistic that the main hurdles have been taken.
 
joG said:
Actually, I read an article just yesterday that Google and NASA have determined that the quantum chip produced by a Canadian Company that belongs to Bezos and an investment company belonging to the CIA has been successful in tests. They think that it will take a number of years, but sounded optimistic that the main hurdles have been taken.
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Do you have a link to that?
 
I don't get something about this. I can understand creating a computer that can decrypt something much, much faster. But can't that same technology be used to create encryption that is much, much stronger?

And can't the key just be made longer and more complicated to offset the new technology's increased decrypting power?
 
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