How Does Math Keep Secrets? – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 How Does Math Keep Secrets? https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-math-keep-secrets-20240801/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-math-keep-secrets-20240801/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:30:04 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=139467 The post How Does Math Keep Secrets? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Can you keep a secret? Modern techniques for maintaining the confidentiality of information are based on mathematical problems that are inherently too difficult for anyone to solve without the right hints. Yet what does that mean when quantum computers capable of solving many problems astronomically faster are on the horizon? In this episode, host Janna Levin talks with computer scientist Boaz...

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