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Due to Shor's algorithm, quantum computers are a severe threat for public key cryptography. This motivated the cryptographic community to search for quantum-safe solutions. On the other hand, the impact of quantum computing on secret key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Marc Kaplan , Gaëtan Leurent , Anthony Leverrier , María Naya-Plasencia

This presentation focuses on differences between quantum computing and quantum cryptography. Both are discussed related to classical computer systems in terms of vulnerability. Research concerning quantum cryptography is analyzed in terms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Dennis Hollenbeck , Ian Malloy

Almost all public secure communication relies on the inability to factor large numbers. There is no known analytic or classical numeric method to rapidly factor large numbers. Shor[1] has shown that a quantum computer can factor numbers in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Eric Lewin Altschuler , Timothy J. Williams

Fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC) is crucial for unlocking the true power of quantum computers. QEC codes use multiple physical qubits to encode a logical qubit, which is protected against errors at the physical qubit level.…

Shor's quantum factoring algorithm and a few other efficient quantum algorithms break many classical crypto-systems. In response, people proposed post-quantum cryptography based on computational problems that are believed hard even for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Fang Song

Factoring large integers using a quantum computer is an outstanding research problem that can illustrate true quantum advantage over classical computers. Exponential time order is required in order to find the prime factors of an integer by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Avinash Dash , Deepankar Sarmah , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Shor's and Grover's famous quantum algorithms for factoring and searching show that quantum computers can solve certain computational problems significantly faster than any classical computer. We discuss here what quantum computers_cannot_…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Peter Hoyer , Robert Spalek

Sensitive digital data, such as health information or governmental archives, are often stored for decades or centuries. The processing of such data calls for long-term security. Secure channels on the Internet require robust key…

Building a useful quantum computer is a grand science and engineering challenge, currently pursued intensely by teams around the world. In the 1980s, Richard Feynman and Yuri Manin observed independently that computers based on quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Timothy Proctor , Robin Blume-Kohout , Andrew Baczewski

Shor's algorithm for the prime factorization of numbers provides an exponential speedup over the best known classical algorithms. However, nontrivial practical applications have remained out of reach due to experimental limitations. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Abu Musa Patoary , Amit Vikram , Victor Galitski

Shor's shockingly fast quantum algorithm for solving the period-finding problem is a threat for the most common public-key primitives, as it can be efficiently applied to solve both the Integer Factorisation Problem and the Discrete…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Nicola Di Chiano , Riccardo Longo , Alessio Meneghetti , Giordano Santilli

Entanglement has been termed a critical resource for quantum information processing and is thought to be the reason that certain quantum algorithms, such as Shor's factoring algorithm, can achieve exponentially better performance than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vivien M Kendon , William J Munro

We describe an array of quantum gates implementing Shor's algorithm for prime factorization in a quantum computer. The array includes a circuit for modular exponentiation with several subcomponents (such as controlled multipliers, adders,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Roberto Perazzo

This paper aims to determine the exact success probability at each step of Shor's algorithm. Although the literature usually provides a lower bound on this probability, we present an improved bound. The derived formulas enable the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ali Abbassi , Lionel Bayle

A digital computer is generally believed to be an efficient universal computing device; that is, it is believed able to simulate any physical computing device with an increase in computation time of at most a polynomial factor. This may not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Peter W. Shor

The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and quantum computing is redefining the security paradigm of interconnected digital systems. Classical cryptographic algorithms such as RSA, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), and Advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jaydip Sen

With the constantly advancing capabilities of quantum computers, conventional cryptographic systems relying on complex math problems may encounter unforeseen vulnerabilities. Unlike regular computers, which are often deemed cost-ineffective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Emils Bagirovs , Grigory Provodin , Tuomo Sipola , Jari Hautamäki

Quantum computers require quantum logic, something fundamentally different to classical Boolean logic. This difference leads to a greater efficiency of quantum computation over its classical counter-part. In this review we explain the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Vlatko Vedral , Martin B. Plenio

The quantum algorithm with polynomial time for discrete logarithm problem proposed by Shor is one of the most significant quantum algorithms, but a large number of qubits may be required in the Noisy Intermediate-scale Quantum (NISQ) era.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Hao Li , Daowen Qiu

We heuristically show that Shor's algorithm for computing general discrete logarithms achieves an expected success probability of approximately 60% to 82% in a single run when modified to enable efficient implementation with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Martin Ekerå