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Interesting Engineering: Breakthrough quantum algorithm can break advanced data encryption
Researchers at MIT have developed a quantum algorithm that could potentially break RSA encryption, a widely used method for securing data.
The research, led by Vinod Vaikuntanathan and graduate student Seyoon Ragavan, focuses on enhancing the practicality of quantum factoring. “The system is based on the idea that factoring a 2,048-bit integer (a number with 617 digits) is too hard for a computer to do in a reasonable amount of time,” explained the researchers in a press release. However, as Oded Regev, a computer scientist at New York University, noted, the MIT team’s work “brings quantum factoring algorithms closer to reality.”
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