Quantum computers and PQC are both enormously complex. But the common process for cracking RSA public key encryption is ...

To a computer, part of our getting-dressed algorithm would look like “if it is below 50 degrees and it is raining, then pick the rain jacket and a long-sleeved shirt to wear underneath it.” ...

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...

Computers are great a processing large amounts of data very quickly. What computers aren’t nearly as good at (though the ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT, came up with a quantum algorithm that calculates the prime factors of a large number, vastly more efficiently than a ...

These problems, the authors show, can be solved on a quantum computer in what's called polynomial time, where the number of qubits is raised to a constant power (denoted n k).Using classical ...

The factoring algorithm is also very bit-efficient; a number n of p-bits can be used to factor numbers up to 2 n + 2. Errors also provide another potential advantage to p-bits.

Unlike the “pseudorandom” numbers thrown out by computer algorithms, this method utilizes the randomness of physical systems — in this instance a laser and some crystals, mirrors and other ...

Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now mathematicians are closing in ...