George G. Shor is a theoretical physicist and mathematician best known for his contributions to quantum computing, particularly his development of Shor's algorithm. This groundbreaking algorithm, introduced in 1994, is designed for factoring large integers efficiently, demonstrating that quantum computers could solve certain problems much faster than classical computers. Shor's algorithm has significant implications for cryptography, particularly in breaking widely-used encryption methods, such as RSA, which relies on the difficulty of factoring large numbers as a security measure.
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