Student (Human)

Biography
He is unnamed Student of  Nicholas Rush in University of California, Berkeley. By the look of things, he is parvenu & grade-grubler. Obviously he is one of the best students in his group.

Dialog with Rush:

Rush: Who can tell me the significance of Shor's algorithm?

Student: It's a quantum algorithm used for integer factorization. It's important because it can, in theory, be used to break the widely used public-key cryptography scheme known as RSA. RSA is based on the assumption that factoring large numbers is computationally infeasible. This assumption is valid for classical computers. No classical algorithm is known that can factor in polynomial time... Professor Rush?

Rush: Very good.