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National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. is developing a quantum computer in order to use it to decrypt codes of super information systems owned by other governments as well as private companies. This was reported by The Washington Post newspaper with reference to another batch of secret documents obtained from a former U.S. intelligence officer Edward Snowden.
noted that the creation of a supercomputer working on the basis of quantum mechanics and is fundamentally different from conventional computer is part of a broader research program NSA, dubbed “penetration in particularly fortified objects” (Penetrating Hard Targets).
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program allocated 79.7 million dollars. It is carried out in the technical laboratory located in the suburbs of the U.S. capital – College Park, known mainly by the fact that there is the University of Maryland. Near this place is located in Maryland and the headquarters of the NSA indicates ITAR-TASS.
However, according to some scholars, which interviewed Washington Post, hardly NSA reached in this way more serious success than civilian specialists at universities and private companies. “It can not be all that far ahead of the NSA, and one would not know about it,” – said MIT professor Scott Aronson.
idea of ??creating a quantum computer was proposed and theoretically substantiated in the early 1980s, scientists from different countries, including the Soviet Union and the United States.
But attempts to build such a device which can perform more operations per unit of time than a regular computer, have not yet led to any practical results. However, many companies, particularly in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe continue serious work in this direction.
And its main rivals in this field NSA now believes the European Union and Switzerland, said RIA “Novosti”.
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