waxwing on Nostr: Interesting quote from the late Timothy May in the Cyphernomicon, written in 1994: ...
Interesting quote from the late Timothy May in the Cyphernomicon, written in 1994: "Shor's quantum-mechanical approach is completely untested...and may not scale well (e.g., it may be marginally possible to get the measurement precision to use this method for, say, 100-digit numbers, but utterly impossible to get it for 120-digit numbers, let alone 1000-digit numbers)"
#cryptography
(Disclaimer: I have no idea if this will prove prescient, or not)
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