Data Security at Risk as Quantum Computers Gain Momentum

What the Rise of Qubits Means for Encryption

Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
5 min readJan 3, 2020

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Recently Google published a paper titled, Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor. In this paper, researchers detail how a quantum computer was able to outperform a classical computer in a computationally time intensive task. Specifically, they compare the performance…

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Writer for Built In & Towards Data Science. Cornell University Ph. D. in Chemical Physics.