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According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency is working to build a “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine that could essentially break every type of encryption with hitherto unforeseen speed and ease.
Reporting on the latest NSA revelation in the Washington Post, Steven Rich and Bart Gellman noted, “With such technology, all current forms of public key encryption would be broken, including those used on many secure Web sites as well as the type used to protect state secrets. MOREHERE