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  1. 'Blind' Quantum Computing Proposed For the Cloud

    Hardware · Cloud · · posted by Soulskill · from the no-relation-to-reality dept. · 89 comments
    judgecorp writes "Researchers at Vienna's Quantum Science and Technology Center have proposed that 'blind' quantum computing could be carried out securely in the cloud. When (if?) quantum computers are developed, they will be very fast, but not everyone will have them. Blind quantum computing will be useful, because it shows that users can encode 'qubits' and send them to a shared quantum computer to be worked on — without the quantum computer having any knowledge of what the data is (abstract). The data also cannot be decoded form the qubit while it is in transit. It's good to know that quantum computers will be secure when they exist. At the moment, of course, they are even more secure, by virtue of their non-existence."

  2. Platform Independent, Searchable Info On CDROM?

    Ask · Science · · posted by Cliff · from the can-it-be-done? dept. · 18 comments
    Knuckles asks: "A friend of mine, who is an ethnologist, needs to author a CD-ROM with ethnographic source material (4,500 printed pages) on the indigenous population of Mexico. The CD-ROM should provide a platform independent way to retrieve the information with a simple interface and be fully searchable. He is computer literate but doesn't know anything about programming. What solution would you propose? I thought of HTML, but am lost on the question of searchability. Macromedia Director or similar? He would prefer free software, but would use proprietary if better fit for his goals."