John Martinis, Nobel in Physics: “I Would Not Like Quantum Computing to Be Known for Breaking the Internet”

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Digital security, which holds from the most common banking transaction to conversations on messaging platforms or the network of cryptocurrencies or critical infrastructures, is based on cryptographic keys, character strings encrypted by an algorithm. The difficulty of deciphering them depends on the factoring, the decomposition of an algebraic expression in the form of a product, that is: six is equal to three by two. But this simple operation …