NSA made The Quantum Computer for Encryption Breaker

The National Security Agency (NSA) has a variety of toolkits to gain access from a variety of electronic equipment of any kind. It's nothing compared to the quantum computer, which is able to solve even the strongest encryption faster than traditional computers based on transistors.

Quoted from Wikipedia, A quantum computer (also known as a quantum supercomputer) is a computation device that makes direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. Quantum computers are different from digital computers based on transistors. Whereas digital computers require data to be encoded into binary digits (bits), quantum computation uses quantum properties to represent data and perform operations on these data. A theoretical model is the quantum Turing machine, also known as the universal quantum computer. Quantum computers share theoretical similarities with non-deterministic and probabilistic computers. One example is the ability to be in more than one state simultaneously. The field of quantum computing was first introduced by Yuri Manin in 1980 and Richard Feynman in 1982. A quantum computer with spins as quantum bits was also formulated for use as a quantum space–time in 1969.

As of 2014 quantum computing is still in its infancy but experiments have been carried out in which quantum computational operations were executed on a very small number of qubits (quantum bits). Both practical and theoretical research continues, and many national governments and military funding agencies support quantum computing research to develop quantum computers for both civilian and national security purposes, such as cryptanalysis.

The report by the Washington Post leaked documents revealed the NSA of Edward Snowden, the spy agency itself vying with each other to build a quantum computer, in order to always be cutting edge than others in building the mother of all machine descriptions.

Research laboratories around the world, companies like IBM and Google, companies like IBM and Google and a number of countries are trying to take advantage of quantum mechanics for drug discovery, predictive analytics, and optimization of complex intelligent machines of various fields such as finance and logistics.

NSA has allocated nearly 80 million USD for the development of quantum computers and most of the work in progress in the physics Laboratory, University of Maryland College Park.

Internal NSA documents obtained by the Washington Post from Snowden said the application of quantum technologies could threaten the encryption algorithm and dramatically impact the ability of the U.S. government in protecting communications and intercepting communications of foreign governments.

So far the D - Wave Systems has developed a quantum computer and sold it for 10 million USD per unit to Google, Lockheed Martin and NASA. According to scientists, the D - Wave quantum computer is not powerful enough to be used as a cryptographic engine.

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