quantum chip built

[alex at alten.org]

>From what I understand simple quantum computers can easily brute-force attack RSA keys or other types of PK keys.  Is ECC at risk too?  And are we at risk in 10, 20 or 30 years from now?  

- Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
Subject: quantum chip built
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:38:52 -0500

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> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2c70001-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
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> ...
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> So, on a semiconductor chip roughly the size of a postage stamp, the
> Michigan scientists designed and built a device known as an ion trap,
> which allowed them to isolate individual charged atoms and manipulate
> their quantum states.
> 
> ...
> 
> The new chip, which is made of gallium arsenide, should be easily
> scaled and mass-produced, because it's made using microlithography --
> the same process that makes microchips.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
> 
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