{"id":195075,"date":"2024-08-23T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-propose-a-smaller-more-noise-tolerant-quantum-factoring-circuit-for-cryptography"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T20:22:47","slug":"researchers-propose-a-smaller-more-noise-tolerant-quantum-factoring-circuit-for-cryptography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/researchers-propose-a-smaller-more-noise-tolerant-quantum-factoring-circuit-for-cryptography","title":{"rendered":"Researchers propose a smaller, more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-propose-a-smaller-more-noise-tolerant-quantum-factoring-circuit-for-cryptography2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic number into factors.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers, on the other hand, promise to rapidly crack complex cryptographic systems that a classical computer might never be able to unravel. This promise is based on a quantum factoring <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/algorithm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">algorithm<\/a> proposed in 1994 by Peter Shor, who is now a professor at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>But while researchers have taken great strides in the last 30 years, scientists have yet to build a quantum computer powerful enough to run Shor\u2019s algorithm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic number into factors. Quantum computers, on the other hand, promise to rapidly crack complex cryptographic systems that a classical computer might never be able [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}