metlin's Journal: Key Step in Cracking Codes using Quantum Computing

I submitted this a while ago, but no idea if it has been accepted. Anyway, thought I'd preserve it here for posterity!

metlin write "A very crucial step in the procedure of decrypting today's commonly used encryption codes by Quantum Computers has been demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). According to a paper which was published in this month's Science, physicists at NIST were able to demonstrate a quantum version of Fourier Transform using electromagnetically trapped beryllium ions as qubits. This is a big step in Quantum Computing as well as its applications, since the quantum version of FT is the most crucial and final step in Shor's algorithm -- an algorithm for finding the "prime factors" of large numbers -- the prime numbers that when multiplied together produce a given number. Paper abstract available here."

Very interesting story

[plover]

By the way, you can check on your submission status by clicking the "Submit Story" link from the home page. It'll say "Accepted", "Pending" or "Rejected." Good luck, it's interesting enough that it should make it.

Re:Very interesting story

[metlin]

Well, turns out it has been rejected.

I guess there wasn't enough place among the dupes and OS zealot articles! :-)