1. David Westenberger Lucas Zurek

2. What’s Happening Now? Silicon-based Computation – Moore’s Law Transistors Physical limitation Then what’s next?

3. What is Quantum Computing? Quantum Mechanics: – “You don’t understand quantum mechanics – you just get used to it.” – Richard Feynman – Qubits – Superposition – Parallelism – Entanglement

4. How Does a Quantum Computer Work?

5. Quantum & Copyright Making an Image: – Copyright Laws: Creator holds copyright – Even if slightly altered – Using a quantum computer to generate images: Find every possible image within given parameters Is this fair? What would happen to copyright laws? Threat to artistic images? Not necessarily just images…

6. Quantum & Encryption RSA & Elliptic Curve Cryptology (ECC): – Used to secure: – Software updates, email, online banking, digital signatures, etc. – Amount of time needed to break a strong 1024-bit RSA code – From billions of years to minutes – But quantum computers don’t have an advantage over every type of cryptography scheme – Any replacement will have some big shoes to fill

7. What Does a Quantum Computer Look Like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KU kWw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KU kWw

8. Sources http://torrentfreak.com/could-quantum-computing-kill-copyright-110731/ http://www.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KUkWw http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cryptographers-take-on-quantum- computers http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cryptographers-take-on-quantum- computers