At a conference hosted by Inside Quantum Technology in Boston this month, Dr. Mark Jackson of Cambridge Quantum Computing announced that 99% of all online encryption will be vulnerable to quantum enabled hacking. Therefore, he said, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is very important for civic, industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) applications and for 5G networks. Both Kiran Bhaghota of

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Report from the Inside Technology Conference: D-Wave and whurley The Inside Quantum Technology conference in Boston last week was a significant event in the evolution of the of the quantum technology business. Many important speakers from this budding industry spoke at the event. This is the first of several pieces that chronicle what they had to say. Denny Dahl, Research

The potential for quantum computers is to do everything that a classical one can do and more. However, that doesn’t mean that they will replace them completely. The manipulation of qubits carries with it complex technological problems. Inside Quantum Technology believes that both quantum and classical devices can work together, complementing each other. Quantum computers allow them to potentially solve

In the late 1990’s there were many fears that our computing infrastructure would break down at the turn of the Century and that mass chaos would ensue for many systems that depended upon computer control and management.  The cause of this concern was a programming bug dubbed Y2K.  Today, much is made of Y2Q, the supposed point in time when

How Useful Are Quantum Computers? Quantum computers today are in a state similar to that of classical computers in their infancy. The first devices took up whole rooms and could perform only simple calculations.  People were also skeptical about these machines living up to the promised potential. No one seriously predicted that we would end up with devices with a

Quantum Annealers: A First Step on the Road to Quantum Computer Commercialization Annealing, the process of improving the quality of metals and alloys by heating them and slowly cooling again, is possibly one of the oldest optimization techniques known to mankind. With the world of big data growing each day, algorithms inspired by this ancient technique have emerged. Simulated annealing

The Quantum Internet Will Require Quantum Repeaters The record distance for QKD with direct transmission is 421km. This result, produced by the team over at ID Quantique in Switzerland, impressive as it may be, is already close to the possible limit that can be achieved with direct qubit transmission. The setup included state of the art single-photon detectors with low

Software Vendors: Using Y2Q (Years to Quantum) to their Advantage With the increasing progress being made on quantum computers, there is an increasing concern that public key encryption algorithms like RSA and Diffie-Hellman will be at risk due to Shor’s algorithm that can factor large numbers on a quantum computer. Although breaking these public key encryption codes will take a

Quantum Communication: Fiber vs. Satellite For general data and voice communications, fiber won the fiber versus satellite war back in the 1980s. For quantum, communications to be scaled globally it looks like both fiber and satellite will be needed. Both can transmit qubits, but for now in the world of the “Quantum Internet”, fiber and satellites serve two different markets

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