Quan­tum com­puter in reverse gear
Large numbers can only be factorized with a great deal of computational effort. Physicists at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, led by Wolfgang Lechner are now providing a blueprint for a new type of quantum computer to solve the factorization problem, which is a cornerstone of modern cryptography.
Ben Niehoff Martin Lanthaler Wolfgang Lechner Communications Physics Nature Communications Physics European Union
Source: eurekalert.org