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How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now
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- Published on Mar 19, 2023 veröffentlicht
- A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm. Head to brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
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A huge thank you to those who helped us understand this complex field and ensure we told this story accurately - Dr. Lorenz Panny, Prof. Serge Fehr, Dr. Dustin Moody, Prof. Benne de Weger, Prof. Tanja Lange, PhD candidate Jelle Vos, Gorjan Alagic, and Jack Hidary.
A huge thanks to those who helped us with the math behind Shor’s algorithm - Prof. David Elkouss, Javier Pagan Lacambra, Marc Serra Peralta, and Daniel Bedialauneta Rodriguez.
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Written by Casper Mebius & Derek Muller
Edited by Trenton Oliver
Filmed by Raquel Nuno
Animated by Ivy Tello & Mike Radjabov
Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images & Pond5
Music from Epidemic Sound & Jonny Hyman
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev, & Emily Zhang
As a science educator you should be particularly proud of this video. I've never seen this topic explained anywhere close to as good as what this video does. Kudos!
I totally agree !
There's Minutephysics who did it years ago.
Kurzgesagt did a very good video on quantum computers as well
Except for the fact that 95% of the viewers will NOT be able to keep up with it, and thus will get nothing out of it.
_In 20 minutes, Derek explains public/private key cryptography and the effect quantum computing has on it better than anyone I have heard in the last 10 years! This is an insanely great visualization of the topic._
but does it matter tho
@akjohnny Does anything matter, does having the ability to cook matter when someone can do it for you, does it matter if you work when people can donate you money outside instead of working.
@flint from mother 3 gaming sorry about Hinawa
@akjohnny Does your identity matter? Your possessions? Job? Privacy?
Quantum computing is both extremely fascinating and terrifying at the same time.
They are in a superposition of fascinating and terrifying
No need to be terrified, Quantum Computing is a bubble that's about to burst. Billions of investments have been poured into it and progress hasn't even come close to a single commercially (or academically) use for them. They can't do a single practical thing better than a standard computer yet, after 30 years of big claims about it being just "5-10 years away". Nobody knows how to write software for them, and they're insanely expensive to run even for a few minutes. Maybe one day we'll make a big discovery, but for now there's 0 indication of it becoming viable even in the next 50 years, and even then it'll only be useful for very niche applications.
@Grumbles true. I think a fundamental error with quantum computers, which is that you lose information when collapsing a super position as explained at 5:20, will not allow quantum computers to reach general purpose.
The ability this man has to simplify the most complex things is on another level. I very much appreciate the efforts and research that goes into each video. Thank you so much, and please keep making such content ✨
Scott Aaronson even recommends this video (and trashes Kaku's book) in "Book Review: “Quantum Supremacy” by Michio Kaku (tl;dr DO NOT BUY)" on his blog
This is my field of work, quantum hardware (PhD). Thanks for covering this topic. I participate in both the technical and non-technical coverage of quantum hardware. On that note, I'll be delivering some invited quantum hardware lecture series on the machines/chips we've been building at my research lab and more. It will be open to the public next week on April 12th with my IBM friends and QuantumGrad. You are all welcomed to join us to learn about what tools and equipment we use to build real quantum devices in the field. Ignore the naysayers, let's keep building and learning from what we build. -Onri the Diné Quantum Engineer
That all sounds great, but I'm here to find out if the Blue Kachina danced yet or not.
please don't the future is scary enough as it is. humans with incredible powers and technology is not a good thing.
@DukeofBlasphemy then get off your phone
@Seth Murrant i don't own a phone
@DukeofBlasphemy tf you using to type this
I graduated in Computer Engineering nearly 20 years ago. This video brought back the same sparkles to my eyes I had during the Calculus and physics classes back there. Thank you so much for it!
This must have taken you so much time and effort to think through how to so perfectly and efficiently explain these complex topics. You have an incredible talent for educating. Great video!!
Great, easily comprehensible explanation of Shor's algorithm! I also really liked your explanation of the proposed multidimensional lattice encryption system, which will hopefully replace RSA soon!
You too are an unsung hero Derek. I've never seen any video simplifying quantum computation in such a layman's language. We learn a lot from you and respect your work(specially this one). Thank you for giving us Vertasium.
I've had zero explaining on how, what, why any computing works. Being 57,I never understood how everything reduced to one's & zero's! But I understood what this guy was explaining quite well. No glazed eyes here! It made perfect sense to me. To see it, is to understand it. Maybe it was the spacial thing, using the graph, along with 3-D imaging. I'm Amazed! Now I see how ones's & zero's work!
@Cheryl L. Fox you know what's more amazing? People like you who are curious and never stop learning regardless of their age. We need more people like you. Thanks for existing.
Remarkable presentation in a world of the “utterly unremarkable.” Equipped with only a rudimentary education in mathematics, even I was able to grasp what you were trying to explain. Bravo….if only I had teachers like you whilst growing up.
There should be like an award for how much effort a creator puts into a single video on Clip-Share.
its amazing its like a A+++ project for a final. and the great references!!!!
There is, you watching it!
there is it's called a youtube award
This isn't the winner though. He has much more amazing productions
@Dude, smell my helmet. Like which one? I feel like this one has the most stuff in it compared to videos he made recently.
Dude...!!! You exist for a reason and what you do is definitely the right path you've chosen. Someone give this man a medal !!!!
he doesnt need a medal, he is a medal
pretty sure he is just a narrator, and the one who deserves the medal is the animator.
@Peter the script maker deserves that
@MagnisoxI couldn't agree more.
I love these videos so much. Exploring incredibly complex topics and breaking everything down in under 30 minutes. Beautiful work.
Uff! What a fantastic video. Never managed to wrap my head around quantum computers, so your video is the first time I grasped the essence of simple quantum computer concepts. One of your bests yet, in my opinion!
Thank you for bringing this technology closer to us and understanding a little more about how amazing it can be.
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Yes, lol
Hey metaballer 🎉
How amazing it going to be lol more like how dark the future is going to be
Never expect to see you here..
What an incredibly clear and easy to follow explanation. Your videos are always great but this was exceptional.
I love your videos! They allow me a look into such interesting topics that would normally be way over my knowledge levels and actually get a graps of its meaning.
He explained Cryptography, Quantum Computing, RSA algorithm and many more in a single video!! We should be grateful that he's providing this content for free.
Adsense.... Except it got demo....... By yt
by doing analogies ,its not hard
Yes and no. The problem is that we have these theoretical mathematical concepts that work in these hypothetical situations we construct, between these finite and infinite sets, yet how do we logically constrain and manipulate these quantum variables in a translatable and meaningful way? We create these incredibly uniform states and measure such limited, inaccurate characteristics - have we really advanced anything about our ability to compute, here? Sure, we could theoretically perform multiple operations and read/write data based on measurable states stored in the existence of "particles" on a scale much greater than our current finite computing systems, but there is a reason this has been a concern for the last 18 years with little progress towards true weaponization - the results are still horrendously inaccurate and meaningless - how do you quantify the infinite gradient of results into our finite computational understanding? All we have really done, as far as this specific video is concerned, is highlighted fundamental flaws in RSA and general asymmetric trust-based encryption, which is something we can simulate with a normal binary super-computer. There is no magic here - we are either purposefully blinding ourselves in order to acquire grant money to perpetuate meaningless quantum computing research or unintentionally confusing ourselves by finding different and terribly inefficient ways of computing basic set theory and calculus problems.
If not, someone else would on youtube?
How is that the case, sir? There are more detailed information available online as well.
This is a genuinely helpful and intuitive description of Shor's algorithm and quantum cryptography. More so than I've seen in my actual quantum computing class I've taken. You explained a topic well in 30 minutes that took me 3 months to understand.
No other creator is able to make a video that talks about math the whole time and get millions of views in a month. This is great content
3blue1brown?
I forgor about him 💀
An important note: by now, there are many approaches to post-quantum encryption protocols besides lattice-based ones. However, all of them are only *thought* to be secure against a quantum attack :)
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I love this, it is great to hear about the people working behind the scenes to keep us safe for years to come. One day I will look back at this video and thank you and all the scientists/ mathematicians for working to keep our data safe as well as showing how it will be kept safe 🙂
The best thing this video does is not only telling you that quantum computing will break modern day encryption, but also daring to explain how it works using secondary school mathematics. It’s just awesome.
I know this video is probably not going to beat the black balls reservoir or some of your other viral hits, but this is really one of the most impressive pieces of science communication you've made over the many years I followed your channel. These are some incredibly difficult to understand concepts and you really made them make sense. I watched a bunch of videos on RSA and quantum computing, but I never quite got it. Now I get it.
This video should get that many views and more. 💯
black balls? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@KingDong on what website could I find this video?
@KingDong Yeah, 96 million of them! Derek's black balls are his most popular video! It has almost as many views as there is balls in it.
@Viniter Hahaha. I feel so immature laughing at balls.
Very informative and well explained! Tomorrow I've my college exam on information security and this really helped me to understand RSA algo better. Thanks a lot!
This was such an amazing video. Super clear content and so beautifully illustrated! Thank you
Great video Man. If i had teachers like you in school back in the day it could have a huge difference in my life. ❤
Congratulations, you did an amazing job at making this comprehensible for non quantum computing / encryption experts.
Best video you've done in a while my friend. It's odd that very few people have tackled PQC / QRCA ... so props for actually diving into this. Very cool. Thanks man :)
As someone who absolutely detested math in every level of education I’m blown away by the fact I’m able to follow and understand this because your explanation and presentation is simple yet detailed.
That's because math isn't taught be people who know how to teach math. Math teachers can only really teach towards other math-minded people. Like about the 15-25% of kids who have a natural math aptitude. The remaining 75%-85% of us have all sorts of trouble. Math pedagogy is shitty.
@ButterfaceMcGillicutty as a math like I’ve experienced that with my other classmates
I got to 9-minutes in, and my brain switched off. In 47 years, I have never found a day where algebra is needed in my life.
I only got the last part, everything else was russianese to me.
@Teutonic Spacehopper Well, without it you would not be writing this comment, because you would probably be a serf. Be grateful that it exists, and perhaps also grateful that you have a life easy enough that you do not have to bother to use it.
This is the first time I've actually understood what quantum means in computing. Been hearing the word thrown around for years but never truly knew what it meant until I watched this video. Great job!
You know, with all your fancy math and calculations, you lost me a few times but I always found my way back (that is a lie). Your stuff is quite informative on more than one level.
This video cleared up some of the confusion I was having understanding quantum computing - and using RSA keys on a daily basis I never knew it was the first letters of the creators last name - very well done
Really great explanation of RSA, I just took an intro to C class where we had to implement it and pretty much write it all ourselves, wish I had this video like a month and a half ago lol. I still got 100% but man it was tough. Great work though
This was amazingly explained. These are very complicated topics and you managed to simplify them so much. Thank you.
This is the best explanation of how quantum superiority breaks the RSA algorithm (and also the best explanation of a possible solution to the problem) I have ever heard. I know how hard it is to teach a complicated subject in a clear and simple manner. Well done!
Indeed, excellent graphics
First time I see a yellow comment 😯
@sundog aurora I saw it somewhere else 😂
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❤ Agree 100%%%%
My head was melting after 4 mins in ( I will stay in my lane of 3D Animation). All you guys that understand these complex math, I respect your abilities and hats off to you all.
Great video as a person with some knowledge in cryptography, it was amazing to see how you could explain so many hard topics to understand in 20 minutes.
Your talent in explaining is so cool. Even someone from a non cybersecurity background would get this.
It's going to be a significant challenge validating the mathematical computations carried out with a Quantum Computer. Non-Determinism and numerical instability could be huge problems when it comes to practical implementation.
this is the greatest explanation ever, such great work. Thank you. I've been trying to verbally explain this to a few people before and had a hard time.
Dude, I went to the International Math Olympiad and this stuff is hard for me. The fact that you're trying to teach this shows incredible respect for your audience.
I usually have youtube on the background while doing other stuff. Not this video....
What city was the math Olympiad held in when you went
A firm understanding of the basics of quantum theory is more relevant in this video than math, I guess.
This video worried me so much because almost all of it went over my head really fast. Your comment gave me solace, thank you.
Nice. I was stuck on the Nationals :( and yea it’s tricky. And I do Real Analysis / Topology
I tried to have this on in the background, I have no idea what just happened.
What I like about the strategies in math that are being used to decipher the encrytpion for the quantum computational process is that it apporaches maths in a way i've never seen before, they are using the relationships to numbers and their common patternality to draw as a functional computational point of reference, and even me as somone who struggles with traditonal numerical concepts due to my dislexia, I am able to pictrure this, and personally, for some reason I find it easier to visualise, it's beautiful, and just reaffirms for me that maths really is the source code to the universe around us, and this form of maths to me actually resonates with me so i'm able to try to understand it.
I was amazed by the amount of information and effort that went into this video
I agree with other comments. As a software developer, I've never seen such a clear explanation. Love the graph at 17:40 (time marker) that shows when the two trends meet.
I’m no mathematician but I find looking into the mathematician’s world fascinating.
What an amazing video!
You showed us a problem, and explained exactly how it works, how it finds a loophole in our current way of doing cybersecurity and abuses it. For this step alone you literally had to explain what quantum computers are and how they work, how we currently do cybersecurity, and how these two things can interact with each other. Each of which is a very complex topic. And you do all of this within 15 minutes or so in a clear, understandable, interactive and memorable way. AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THIS you continue by giving us a possible solution to this problem and explaining how it would work (which meant having to explain a complex theory in maths) and at the same time keep the video as short and clear as it it. Absolutely amazing.
Unbelievable how effectively you can summarize
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Nice! Could you maybe make a video about homomorphic encryption? It’s a encryption that lets you do encrypted calculations.
The amount of times I forgot what this video was about is crazy but it's a good thing, haven't seen equations like that since I did pure math a couple years ago , great video 👌
What is pure math
@Jazzling it's basically calculus ...I think , don't quote me tho 😂
Incredible, just absolutely incredible to explain this much research in one video. Bravo
Best explanation of quantum computers and algorithms. Kudos to all supporters that help this video so well and informative
Thanks! I have been trying to understand quantum computing for a while now. Not as long as it's been around; but long enough.
This explanation single handedly made me understand.
You just managed to explain half a semester of QIT in a single video. This is absolutely fantastic! I wish I'd had this video back in college!
Someone (not me) would say you need that semesters half to understand it
@Attewir Hey, I'm the someone
What’s QIT
Quantum information theory
All QIT is missing is U!
Sensational video, the explanations are so clear follow-able. I was sick of reading random articles over the years of how quantum computers will break everything with no attempt to even explain why, because the article authors themselves had no clue to begin with.
I got about halfway through and this video melted my brain.
But I can say one thing for sure..
The future world of quantum computers is very exciting, but also VERY scary.
For once in my life I've practically seen the impact math can have on our lives. Finally lol
It really is so cool! I recently started watching a channel called Zac Star. And the channel focuses on explaining how math can be practical. And it's because of that channel that I actually came to see why math is important. It's super interesting, I recommend it quite a lot.
Thank you for you're contribution to applied science and development. I believe that we should continue to development security against the threat of Qauntum Computing as if it gets in the wrong hands of a malicious actor or actors it can be disastrous. I believe confidentiality should be key for the welfare of tje whole world including our respective governments. Thank you!
This for a guy that has been studying quantum theory for dozens of years, and I couldn't explain it with such grace.. Powerful video.
I'm a CS student and have been trying to understand this concept recently, but the explanations I've found in the internet have been too complex. This was the best explanation I've found. I'm not sure if I understand everything you said but I understood most of it. Thanks!
Instead of bits, we now have qubits, 0 and 1 until measured, a superstition state until measured. Once measured and revealed, the qbits can possibly be 0 and 1 in many probabilities.
GPT4...
Just imagine the logical gateway that remains in both states simultaneously.
That's basically it from the IT perspective.
@Jesse can it be 0 and 1 at the same time?
Like PBS space time. 😂
This video is so well done that it qualifies as genius. Thank you for enlightening me!
I truly wonder how AI would play on this, where we might end up having AIs fighting each other to encrypt and break the encryption.
4:20 - 5:15
I spent this time getting gradually more and more terrified that you had somehow managed to get this wrong, hoping beyond hope the superposition measurement thing would be clarified. And it was! Thank god. Even my university course missed out the fact that when you measure it it collapses to just one of the answers... It's honestly depressing.
I am a doctor and scientist who is above-average in maths and I am struggling to understand some parts of the video, but I can tell that it is well-made (even though it is not QC for Dummies). I will return to it a bit later as I find the topic interesting.
i find it so interesting how math protects the digital realm to the point it is unbreakable, for a period
while you cant do that with physical things
they can always be broken
The existence of quantum resistance algorithms is very important to note. But the idea that stuff is being saved now that doesn't use those methods is interesting. Hadn't thought of that before.
might see a period of criminals cracking this data and extorting other criminals. wild
I would not worry much about it. My classic computer with classic piece of software can brake 20y old database in (mili)seconds. Nobody cares much about it. I guess the same will happen 20y in future. But scaremongering bring lots of views=money.
Fun fact. NISS is in the process of standardizing post quantum cryptography. We already know which algorithms will be used in a decade.
@Robert Yeah but also 20 years ago people didn’t have their entire lives and businesses online
It feels like in tenet where we are fighting with the future.
Thank you so much for this explanation. I have been searching for an explanation that is clear to me for months. No other explanation comes close to this one. Crystal clear,
I would like to join others in congratulating the producers of this video (and many other videos on Veritasium). Seeing it (and hearing a lot of discussions about quantum computing in general) does make me wonder, however, why much less concern regarding breaking of encryption appears to be expressed in connection with the possibility that NP = P and that a constructive method may be found to solve NP problems in polynomial time on classical computers. In fact, if polynomial time algorithms for solving NP problems exist, finding them may turn out to be easier than building an appropriate quantum computer. Moreover, if such algorithms are found, they will invalidate all asymmetric encryption/decryption methods including the lattice-based method discussed in the video. It would also affect many other areas such as cryptocurrency. What makes the belief in the possibility of large scale quantum computer more "reasonable" than a belief that NP=P and that constructive ways of solving NP problems in polynomial time exist? That might be a good topic of discussion for another Veritasium video 🙂
I always believed guessing the answer in a math exam at school is better than solving it😂
Honestly KUDOS - I never understood why quantum computers could break RSA/encryption (it was always a boogeyman but badly explained) but this video explained it nicely, clearly and now I have better grasp on the topic :) But I kinda wish you could also explain the other 3 methods of anti-quantum encryption, not just that one.
This is the clearest explanation of how quantum computers work that I have ever seen. Excellent work!
As a math enthusiast I appreciate a lot the fact that you are willing to make hardcore math topics understandable for the general public ♡
I learned both everything and nothing in this video, and I enjoyed every second of it
Me too lol
As a math and computer enthusiast, i say the same for the computer part too!
I must be dumb then, cause I still didn't understand
He said understandable.... 😢😭
At 15:55 the plus sign clips into the angle bracket. Not that I want to nitpick, but rather the opposite, I think that the visuals are amazing and I'd like to contribute by letting you know that there might be a bug in the engine you're using to create them, so you (or the team that created it) can fix it. 🙂
This video confused the heck out of me since I don’t understand most of the terms he’s using, but it was still fascinating to watch and listen to. It’s amazing how smart some people are that figure this type of stuff out.
I want to thank you for publishing this video. It was beautifully done and the graphics were simple to understand.
Could you also do a video on AIs and GPT? It's the buzzword around here but I don't really get it... Your videos help me with the science stuff, so please make one on this too🙏
So we are decrypting by using positional patterns. Interesting. Quantum computers expedite the pattern recognition. Very cool. You know I was wondering on the lattices part . If dimensionality increases the complexity of nailing the position of an object I wonder that we move from 3Dto 5D to 7D is it harder to see people physically? I know I know all that isn’t science but I have heard so many alternative spiritualists talk about this I have to wonder. Great video thank you ❤ Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak 😂
After watching countless videos trying to understand this topic, this is honestly the only one that I can follow through! Well done and please keep cranking more videos. Thank you so much!
Keep it up. Happy to see your support to the channel.
Love to see the support!
you need to understand the (mostly simple) math behind those algo to truly appreciate what's going on
@OrionCinema Go make your own money.
@OrionCinema< former scammer found
Fantastic video! Just understanding this approach to decryption is a feat in itself. But who in God's name comes up with a series of insights like this? I feel very, very humble.
Could you imagine what might happen when quantum computing is pinned down, and combined with the latest developments in AI.
Also. Fantastic video!!
i think we are scrued if they let that happens.
DAMN, 3:22 - 5:36 you explained such a complex quantum ocmputing limitation in such simple words. Excellent job. Keep up the good work. Sub++
There should be a nobel prize for being able to make a biologist understand maths and you would have it
I'm curious if quantum computers will be able to generate images, probably like AI, with a specified list of factors to filter the results with.
I'm very impressed with how you can make such complex topics accessible. And it's not even one complex topic it's like 10 different extremely complex topics, in 24 minutes. Hats off
Hats off indeed!
He needs to explain 10 topics in order for people to understand the main point. Not all viewers have an understanding in the basics of math or physics, so in order to make a point he needs to explain the basics over and over again in every video. He assumes minimum knowledge of the audience in order to gain as much viewership as possible.
@Calix and that is enough.
No, it just means you aren't very smart. Him having to explaining it to a child only means your brain is equal to a child's brain.
Keep making more of these videos my brain LOVES IT! You explained it so well compared to every other video I’ve watched on this topic. I’m thinking of all the possibilities. A chess bot that sees 100 moves ahead, a solution to the 3x - 1 problem, a gaming PC that can process petabytes in less than a second, so much. The possibilities are exponential with the more qubits there are, but breaking encryption does seem like a real threat unless we had a chapter book of random characters for each of our passwords.
All your videos are amazing. Never stop!
Looking at unreal engine 5, gpt-4, and the most recent stable diffusion models, thinking what those could do for the dialogue, visuals, and art in games. And then imagining what those could do running on massive quantum computers.
Imagine a game with dialogue and story written in real time based on your actions. With the art and sound and music all done in real time as you play. It would be like the entire game is being made for you.
And all of it would look completely indistinguishable from real life.
And this could be made into VR which wouldn't be too hard to turn into a completely immersive full dive system like the matrix. Just less AI torture Sim and more giant videogame paradise.
I honestly think that that's where the aliens are. The Fermi paradox's solution is that aliens invent quantum computers, invent AI, and create VR and then all dissappear into matrix style simulation paradises.
You can just be doing whatever you want in a game of D&D with friends but you're actually there. Whatever you can dream of.
And there are people who say you'd get sick of it eventually but just temporarily section off your memory do you can experience it for the first time a thousand times and remember all those afterwards.
@Atash Gallagher not a big fan of the idea of altering my perseption of reality to that extent. And I'm a sucker for new tech and and video games
You missed the concept entirely. Quantom computers arent just super strong all powerful computers capable of solving any enigma we hold. RIght now they can barely factor two numbers
@CatONfire Yeah, unfortunately all the marketing to attract investors has really been eaten up by most of the public. Quantum computers have barely advanced in the slighest in decades, and there's no sign of anything practical coming from them in the next 20-50 years. And then it'll only be for very niche applications.
This is one of the most fantastic explanations! Thank you.
I dislike math, and I suck at it, and yet you managed to explain math which is far above my head to me. Outstanding.
This is the only video in veritasium that are really complex and I actually understand🤣. He explained so well.
Just amazed to see such simple explanation of such complex topics
As someone who's heading into the field of Quantum Computing and knows the formal background for both, the cryptography and QC, this video is simply mind blowing. I have never seen such a good explanation of RSA without mentioning a single concept from group theory. I see the complex background for everything you're talking about shining through and marvel at how you manage to sidestep explaining it completely. I have been doing quite some quantum computing, but I never managed to understand Shor's algorithm, until now.
Gotta read up on the maths of this now, with the help of an intuitive understanding. :)
Thanks for explaining the combination of those two complex topics so well!
I'm missing something here. In reference to RSA He basically said "maths" and "prime numbers" and waved his hands. He didn't explain anything about it.
I know little about Quantum computers, But I keep getting an Erie feeling, and it hasn't gone away
can you give some insight into the danger of quantum computers?
@philo betto do you mean the physical danger of the systems or the potential applications they could be used for?
In the latter case, we computer scientists usually classify problems into two categories. Can be solved easily and can be verified easily.
A list can be sorted easily, a matrix multiplication can be performed easily. A Sudoku on the other hand, we can't solve easily (yet), same for protein folding (required for creating drugs and curing diseases like cancer), prime factorization is hard too. But, if you know the answer, you can easily verify it.
Those problems are easy to check, but hard to solve. The problem with having access to a quantum computer is now, that I do not have to solve the problem.
I can just build am algorithm to verify the solution of a Sudoku (easy to do), run it on a superposition of all possible inputs, and collapse the resulting superposition down to a single one I can measure.
I have therefore just checked all possible inputs instead of having to solve the problem. This is of course just an analogy to get some intuition, QCs do not simply allow you to just solve all so called NP-complete problems.
The potential (danger) here is the ability to solve a multitude of problems that weren't solvable before, including simulations of quantum processes (that are quantum and therefore too complicated for a classical computer, but a QC is made of the same concepts so it can easily simulate them).
This will allow for the development of new unseen technologies, medicine, materials,....
Being able to simulate actual quantum process should turbo boost quantum physics.
Whether those technologies will be used or abused is the question.
@Patrick Killian Prime numbers are numbers that can only be perfectly divided (no remainder) by itself and 1. So, think for example of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. These numbers are only divisible by themselves and 1. An example of a number that is NOT prime is 4 because it's divisible by 2 (which itself is a prime number). Prime numbers are kind of special because we can think of them as the "building blocks" of other numbers because all numbers are factors of prime numbers.
The point of RSA encryption is that it's notoriously difficult to find the prime number factors of very large numbers.
@Geosearchef Initially, use as a weapon is my main concern.
theoretically, it feels like it has the potential to be many times more dangerous than a group of chimpanzees in a nuclear
silo.
and much greater odds of something catastrophic.
at the least, it will only speed up the inevitable.
We passed the point of no return decades ago.
Great educational content. Had to rewatch some parts to make it click but overall very clear.
Hypothetically, Could a powerful enough math trained AI, be programmed, or taught to convert theses superpositions simultaneously, hence being the mechanism needed to refine quantum computers?
This video reminded me how much I love and am fascinated by math. Good job on the explainer!
I did both the Highest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple when I was in Primary School.
With a University Degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics I have NEVER seen it since.
I would not be able to do this calculation today until I saw this presentation.
You're another reason why I've loved physics.
I made the 20M qubit estimate referred to at 17:15. I was impressed by this video. Shor's algorithm is a really hard algorithm to explain. It depends crucially on bits of signal processing, of number theory, of computer science, and of quantum physics. I think the video did a good job of demonstrating the core concepts of the algorithm, while skipping several of the finicky details.
I also appreciated a popular video including cost estimates based on plausible hardware, instead of magical perfect hardware. Probably the most controversial bit to me is the plot wildly speculating that the estimated costs will drop by another factor of 100 over the next decade. But, on the other hand, who can say what trick will be found to crunch down arithmetic circuits. Karatsuba found his multiplication algorithm within a week of it being conjectured impossible.
Wow man! Hats off! 🎩
You actually got good content now that I see!
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Great paper Craig. I have read it multiple times. On facet that is often missed is that increasing the key size from RSA 2048 to RSA 3072 only provides another year or two of protection. ECDSA has a similar fate.
To anyone freaked out about this, don't panic. A new set of algorithms are rolling out, just like other transitions over the last 30+ years.
Again, Crag stellar work! Thank you!
Wow, you're practically a celebrity of the quantum computing world.
mind-blowing 🤯. this is the first time I have come across explanation that is related with practical application and so much easy ( compare to others on internet not literally 😅) to visualize and understand. hats-off.
I like the way you present superposition this way the gradient combined with the turning and the equation changing in sync was a really nice touch anyone could understand
Seriously stuff like this is gonna be key for getting people on board with progressive ideas.
Incredible explanation of this. I've yet to see anyone as in depth as your video here.
😎 Pretty good explanation.
Shrodinger's cat was a way to try to explain superposition and some other interesting idea's. It also raised many other topics such as observer based states and random chance.
Quantum mechanics was in it's infancy but then again so was Einstein.
We need a reference point for most things we do is science otherwise it is all random.