Encryption in electronic commerce is widely based on RSA — an algorithm first described by Rivest, Shamir and Adleman — which owes its security to the idea that finding factors of very large numbers ...
Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...
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