1997-10-14 - Re: Quantum Computing

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From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
To: adam@homeport.org>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-10-14 05:54:36 UTC
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From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:54:36 +0800
To: adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: Quantum Computing
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Some of the papers on this site don't paint a hopeful picture that quantum
computers will live up to some of its biggest boosters insofar as crypto
and factoring problems are concerned.  For example see:

http://feynman.stanford.edu/qcomp/plenio/plenio/plenio.html

Others seem down right gleeful:

http://feynman.stanford.edu/qcomp/bennett-nature95

They all seem to agree that practical quantum computers are still a long
way off.

--Steve

At 4:01 PM -0700 10/13/97, John Mayorga wrote:
>To answer Adam's question on quatum computing, see:
>http://feynman.stanford.edu/qcomp/artlist.html
>
>Interesting stuff.  Nothing to do with encryption (except maybe breaking it in
>the future).
>







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