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Originally Posted by Radar
If I could afford such a computer, I'd also be in line to buy one too. It makes sense that they would use it first to attack encryption. The government is always interested in that, and they have invested millions into this research. They always want to get their hands on the new stuff first, and even force companies to delay the release of certain technology until they get it first.
I said they'd have a working computer by 3 years. They did. It might not be very practical or useful at the moment, but they have a working version.
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Radar,
The purpose of quantum computing in random number generation is to make cracking encryption by hostile agencies a lot harder by increasing the entropy of the system
. Current hardware-based random number generators just don't scale up to the level you need for 10-40Gbps pipes, and beyond. There are certain customers in corporate America and Europe (think banks, multi-national telecoms, and multi-national pharma) that would pay a lot of money to encrypt their dark fiber and SAN traffic efficiently. Defense is right up there too, but a given.
Of course, the opposite is true. With the right code, any "product of primes" encryption such as RSA would be toast with quantum computing.
GPS would be the best application, as you'd have the ability to use the current satellite system to be significantly more accurate (think fractions of a millimeter).
I still think the Zii is more marketing than product
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