Download Quantum Computing And the Future of Copyright

David Westenberger
Lucas Zurek
What’s Happening Now?
• Silicon-based Computation
– Moore’s Law
• Transistors
• Physical limitation
• Then what’s next?
What is Quantum Computing?
• Quantum Mechanics:
– “You don’t understand quantum mechanics – you
just get used to it.”
– Richard Feynman
– Qubits
– Superposition
– Parallelism
– Entanglement
How Does a Quantum Computer
Work?
Quantum & Copyright
• Making an Image:
– Copyright Laws:
• Creator holds copyright
– Even if slightly altered
– Using a quantum computer to generate images:
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Find every possible image within given parameters
Is this fair?
What would happen to copyright laws?
Threat to artistic images?
• Not necessarily just images…
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
What Does a Quantum Computer Look
Like?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KU
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Sources
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http://torrentfreak.com/could-quantum-computing-kill-copyright-110731/
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm
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http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KUkWw
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/cryptographers-take-on-quantumcomputers