Re: QUANTUM Computers

From: mike3 (mike4ty4_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:19:40 GMT

Please COMMENT on what I said!

"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1d54b7e4.0402280020.182e2b87@posting.google.com...
> "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
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> > mike3 wrote:
> > > Do you wonder what items classified zillions of levels
> > > above top-secret might be hidden deep underground
> > > in some mountain somewhere with lots of armed
> > > guards protecting them? Do you think that behind
> > > some 3-foot-thick vault door somewhere, there is
> > > a Quantum Computer, busily using Shor's Algorithm
> > > to intercept and crack people's PGP keys routinely?
> >
> > It happens that there isn't, although there have been
> > other nifty breakthroughs. The machines don't tend to
> > be under mountains, however, nor behind 3-foot-thick
> > doors. Why should they be? There are of course
> > numerous security provisions where the real machines
> > are, but it would be unwise to discuss them. Why do
> > you care?
>
>
> The 3-foot-thick doors, under a mountain, etc. just menas "somewhere
> REALLY guarded and secret".

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