彼得·肖尔的算法可能摧毁互联网，但他并不担心

Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he’s not worried Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and institutions like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US have established quantum-proof encryption standards, but adapting them will be both difficult and costly. Large institutions like banks may need years just to audit their communications networks for possible weaknesses, then an equally long amount of time to update their systems. “SO, HE’S the Beyoncé of this event?” a young woman standing behind me says to a colleague. The three of us are looking at the back of a crowd, whose members are all watching a bearded man in an orange sweater. …