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Revolutionary Quantum Keys Boost Data Security to New Heights

Calendar Apr 19, 2002 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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data protection secure transmission encryption technology quantum communication cryptographic methods
Imagine, if you will, a means of delivering encryption keys that is so secure that it's impossible to break because doing so would violate the laws of physics. In other words, the delivery method is so secure, it's protected by the very fabric of the universe.. . . Imagine, if you will, a means of delivering encryption keys that is so secure that it's impossible to break because doing so would violate the laws of physics. In other words, the delivery method is so secure, it's protected by the very fabric of the universe.

If that doesn't get your attention, think about this: What Dr. Hughes is working with is a way to encode information on individual photons. He then sends these encoded photons to a receiver that can measure their characteristics and determine from those characteristics the data that the encoding represents. That's right: He's imprinting information on individual subatomic particles.

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