Re: [PLUG] Quantum computing talk Thursday night at Princeton ACM

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

I needed to run some errands after work and totally forgot all about
this until this morning. Did anyone attend?

Walt

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 05:20:06PM -0400, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
> I will try to attend this because I am interested in the idea of quantum
> cryptography.  I am more interested in the creation and protection of
> quantum cryptographic keys because the qubit provides a physics level
> approach to protecting an encryption key because if you view or copy the
> key the state of the qubit changes and you cannot know what state the qubit
> was in before it was modified.  Please excuse me if this explanation is too
> simple.
> 
> 
> Michael Lazin
> 
> .. τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM Walt Mankowski via plug <
> plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Tomorrow night Terry Bollinger will be giving a talk on quantum
> > computing at the Princeton ACM. Here's a brief synopsis:
> >
> > ===
> >
> > A Deep-Physical Look at Quantum Computing
> >
> > The talk begins with a description of how David-Deutsch-style quantum
> > computing was supposed to undermine all prime-number cryptography
> > methods by using only 15 qubits. Not 15 thousand or 15 million: 15
> > qubits. What happened after that, and why usable quantum computing
> > continues to stump the world decades later, is the topic of this talk.
> >
> > ===
> >
> > The meeting is online and starts at 8 PM EDT tomorrow night, May
> > 21. For more information go to
> >
> > https://princetonacm.acm.org/meetings/mtg2605.pdf
> >
> > Walt
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