reporter: but nsa will also be able to break encryption codes that we all use to protect our bank accounts, e-mails, medical records, a privacy advocate say that may lead to a world with no secrets, where it would be almost pointless trying to protect anything. we don t know, in fact, what the capabilities are, what steps are being taken to undermine the types of encryption that you and i might rely, for example, when we go online to purchase a book or download some music. recently we learned that reporter: the quantum computer program is revealed in documents provided by nsa leaker edward snowden and reported by the washington post. how would this supercomputer work? when a regular computer tries to solve a problem, it has to go through each possible solution one by one by one until it arrives at the correct answer. what makes a quantum computer so special is that it simultaneously tries every possibility. arriving at the correct answer much quicker. according to the docum