US National Security Agency (NSA) is trying to develop a futuristic super computer called ‘that could be capable of breaking almost every kind of encryption on the computer used to protect banks, medical, business including top-secret information held by government around the world. The goal of creating a working quantum computer is to boost encryption cracking capabilities against world’s strongest encryption i.e. RSA – commonly used in Web browsers for encrypted emails and secure financial transactions. The progress of the NSA’s Project on such computer is not known, but Snowden’s documents suggested that the agency is no closer to building a quantum computer and it is difficult to attain because of the fragile nature of such computers.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/nsa-will-not-stop-spying-on-us-next.html