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Solving Quantum Cryptography

Season 6 Episode 29

Your search history is only a tiny math problem to becoming public knowledge. That math problem is prime number factoring, and the new era of quantum computers may lay bare your indiscretions, as well as collapse the entire digital economy. Unless we get us some post-quantum cryptography post-haste. So, how close are we?