Quantum computing

Multiplying two large primes is easy, but recovering them from the product is extremely hard. Public key systems such as RSA rely on that gap to keep messages secret.

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Ordinary computers use bits that are 0 or 1; quantum computers use qubits that can be in superpositions and be entangled, which helps with some tasks but is hard to engineer.

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