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 documents, the quantum computers being developed at this lab in college park, maryland. quantum computing is so