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Solving Quantum Cryptography

Your extensive posting history on r/birdswitharms and your old fanfiction-heavy livejournal are both one tiny math problem away from becoming public knowledge. That math problem is prime number factoring, and the new era of quantum computers may lay bare your indiscretions, as well as collapse the entire digital economy. Unless we get us some post-quantum cryptography post-haste. So, how close are we?

English
  • Originally Aired September 28, 2020
  • Runtime 18 minutes
  • Production Code 4KCDGa98Ckc
  • Network PBS
  • Created October 3, 2020 by
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  • Modified October 3, 2020 by
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