Anyone afraid of quantum computer?

[Joseph Oreste Bruni]

On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Kārlis Repsons wrote:

> Hello,
> its more a curiosity for me now, but I remember one university  
> lecturer
> saying, that successful quantum computer would make public key  
> cryptography
> useless. Some experiment here:
> http://www.physorg.com/news165418586.html
> Opinions on if we are likely to experience it, the public key demise?


More practically, harnessing the GPU's via something like OpenCL is  
probably closer to reality.