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22 WWLP NEWS
01/03/2014
NEW YORK -
The NSA is reportedly developing a powerful new computer. It will be able to break encryption codes much faster than current computers.
Encryption: those scrambled codes that protect our most sensitive information online and shields the most top-secret, crucial data that governments possess from hackers and cyber-spies.
Now, the NSA is reportedly developing what's called a 'quantum' computer. When it's complete, it'll be able to break just about any encryption in the world.
"Quantum computing will be a game-changer. It will make it a lot easier for NSA to break the codes that foreign governments use, that foreign criminal groups use," said James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
NSA will also be able to break encryption codes that we all use to protect our bank accounts, e-mails, and medical records. A privacy advocate says that may lead to a world with no secrets where it would be almost pointless trying to protect anything.
"We don't know for the most part what the capabilities are, what steps are being taken to undermine the types of encryption that you and I might rely on, for example, when we go online to purchase a book or download some music," said Marc Rotenberg.
The quantum-computer program is revealed in documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and reported by The Washington Post.
How would this super-computer work? When a regular computer tries to solve a problem it has to go through each possible solution one-by-one-by-one, until it arrives at the correct answer. What makes a quantum computer so special is that it simultaneously tries every possibility, arriving at the correct answer much quicker.
According to the documents the quantum computer's being developed at a lab in College Park, Maryland.
Quantum-computing is so difficult to master, and this computer is so fragile that it's being built in special room-sized cages that have to seal out any electromagnetic energy in the air, like cell phone or GPS signals.
How close is NSA to finishing this computer? Experts say it could be anywhere from five-years away, to a decade or more.
The NSA wouldn't comment on the reported project.
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