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Prepare yourself for Quantum Computing (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Quantum Computing Is Not Going to Break Encryption

Getting a large number of qubits is one thing but having them stable for a long enough time to do some processing is the other. At this moment we are at about 50 or 100 qubits that are sufficiently stable to do something useful. It's going to take a while before we have quantum computers that are strong enough to break encryption, he says. But guaranteeing encryption is I think for financial institutions health care everything where privacy is important is going to be an important aspect and give it a year or so for now.

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