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Are there any uses for Shor's algorithm other than breaking public key cryptography
A bit of an esoteric answer: there is a particular proposal for post-quantum cryptography called "CSI-FiSh", based on isogenies. Without getting too deep into the number theory, the ...
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Are there any uses for Shor's algorithm other than breaking public key cryptography
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It's an interesting question to pose which problems reduce to factoring (or discrete log), and whether any of those problems could be of practical value. In general I think the ...
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What are the practical applications of quantum computing in engineering by the year 2030?
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Similar to this answer, I will say that quantum computers that are capable of doing calculations that are industry-relevant, do not yet exist (and probably won't exist for at least a ...
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