Secure Just Means Nobody Has Broken It Yet
When someone says an encryption scheme is secure, what is the claim?It sounds like a statement about the scheme. It is closer to a statement about us. Secure, in almost every case that matters, means that nobody has found a...
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We Factored the Number 49337 on a Quantum Computer
Explaining why this is a clickbait reveals important features of the current status of quantum computers and the quest for breaking encryption.Factoring numbers is not just a mathematical curiosity. It is the backbone of much of the encryption that shields...
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The paradox of Intellectual Property in Deep tech
Can commercial advantage and scientific research coexist?
In late January 1987, a small group of physicists knew something the rest of the world did not. They had found a ceramic material that became superconducting at 93 kelvin, a temperature high enough...
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