[Gllug] Bomb the ISP's
Nix
nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 17 21:27:16 UTC 2001
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nathan Matthews said:
>>From what I understand Quantum Computers stand to make any Prime Factor
> based code almost trivial to decript, There certainly a theoretical
> possibility. I'd be surprised if the NSA didnt allready possess one.
The NSA are spook mathematicians, not spook quantum physicists.
There are *very* few good quantum computing people out there, and
they're overwhelmingly concentrated in academia (and IBM). There are few
enough that they can be individually tracked :)
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