Much of the disruptive force of quantum computing can be reduced to a single and relatively old idea: Shor’s algorithm. Devised in 1994 by MIT mathematician Peter Shor, the algorithm is designed to ...

A paper shared with CoinDesk shows humans and AI agents beating Google’s March result on a core calculation used by Shor’s algorithm, adding another variable to crypto’s quantum clock.

Quantum factor: the Paul trap used by Monz and colleagues. (Courtesy: C Lackner/Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy Group, University of Innsbruck) A quantum computer made of five trapped ions has been ...

A quantum computer algorithm that is used to find the prime factors in an encryption key. Created by applied mathematician Peter Shor in the mid-1990s, Shor's algorithm may be used to break the codes ...

(Nanowerk News) A research team led by Prof. PAN Jianwei with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has been successful in performing Shor's ...

When people talk about the “cryptopocalypse,” in which classical encryption methods are summarily rendered obsolete by quantum computing technology, they’re usually talking about Shor’s algorithm, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Peter Shor is a poet. Here is a limerick he ...

Almost every secure connection on the internet, from a bank’s login page to a messaging app, relies on math problems that an ...