NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms

Re:NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistan... by robotkilla on Saturday August 15, 2015 @08:50AM (#10065241)

I have next to zero understanding of how quantum computers are supposed to work. Does anyone have something like an intro into QC "for dummies"? I want to grasp this subject.

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Re:NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistan... by Thorondor on Saturday August 15, 2015 @09:13AM (#10065284)

The paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0261 is a reasonably good introduction with a fair amount of math.

If you're looking for a non-technical overview, you might try https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/quantum... but I don't think English alone is precise enough to explain anything really interesting about quantum computing.

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Re:NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistan... by noinsight on Saturday August 15, 2015 @10:28AM (#10065445)

I liked this presentation at CCC: https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6261_-_en_-...

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