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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    Re: There goes public-key encryption...
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc () Mutz ! com>
Date:       2001-12-21 16:07:14
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 21:18, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Andre Esteves wrote:
> > There goes public-key encription....
>
> Why?
>
> > Quantum computer with 5 bits demonstrated:
> > http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml
>
> How well can this concept be scaled up to sizes significant for
> cracking encryption keys?

The red sponge has a surface protein that has a molecular weight of more 
than 1'000'000 u. So you just keep adding CH_2 groups to the molecule?

Don't think Moore's law only holds for silicon chips. Expect the 
register size of QC's to equally grow exponentially. But since QC's 
operate on all possible values of the register at once, you only need 
to push the regster size to 4k bits. If you reached that, 128kbits will 
be doable, too. Imagine how long a silicon computer needs to even 
create auch a key...


Marc

- -- 
It's good fortune for the government that the masses don't think.
                                                         -- Adolf Hitler
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