“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).
Chapter 9Alice in Quantumland—Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computing has the potential to rapidly factor large numbers. That’s a problem for standard cryptography, which relies on classical computers being unable to handle that level of computation.[48][49] When that happens, almost all transactions—financial, medical, business—will be rendered moot, as there would be no reliable way to secretly share information. The situation is so dire that there’s a tremendous urgency to find an adequate replacement when quantum computers become commonplace.
In this chapter, ...
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