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Quantum computers that the modern world looks forward to society and over which the best minds of the planet are beating can become a tool not of creation, but of destruction.
This statement was made at the recent International conference on quantum technologies, and its leader expressed group of quantum optics at the Russian Quantum Center Alexander Lviv. Professor of Physics of Munich agreed with him. Wenjamin Rosenfeld University.
The fact is that quantum computers will practically commit revolution in modern cryptography, and therefore any encrypted data (financial information, medical records, secrets state, military and so on) will be available practically to everyone curious, not to mention hackers.
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Currently, two quantum algorithms have been created: super-fast database search and the so-called Shore effect, able to decompose any numbers into prime factors, i.e. crack even the most complex encryption. By the way, at the conference Mikhail Lukin, co-founder of the Russian Quantum Center, announced that his team successfully tested the other day 51-qubit quantum computer, which will soon be used to run the Shore algorithm. What is called have arrived …
However, there is an encouraging opinion of, say, Vladimir Shalaev, member of the advisory board of the Russian Quantum Cent. is he considers, like every phenomenon, every discovery in science, like our world as a whole, has two opposite sides. And therefore quantum a computer cannot be considered an instrument of creation or destruction, it is both taken together, two sides of the same coin. Remember says the scientist, at least the laser that was originally used in medicine and engineering, however, was soon to take on armament of the military. Nuclear technology, on the other hand, has sprung up as a weapon, but then began to be used for peaceful purposes, to for example, at a nuclear power plant.
Lukin fully agrees with Shalaev, in addition, he is convinced that by the time quantum computers are capable of hack the current classic encryption, schemes will appear in the world and encryption methods based on the same quantum technologies. And that’s why nothing in principle will change dramatically. And here are the prospects peaceful uses of quantum computers – just fantastic. This is what drives scientists around the world. persistently go to the goal in this direction, despite the temporary failure and even opposition from certain forces …
