News tagged with cryptography theory

Japanese researchers succeed in quantum cryptographic key distribution from single-photon emitter at 50 km

Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo, Fujitsu, and NEC Corp. today announced that they have achieved quantum cryptographic key distribution at a world-record distance ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Making quantum cryptography practical

Quantum cryptography, a completely secure means of communication, is much closer to being used practically as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory have now developed high speed detectors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Thwarting the cleverest attackers

In the last 10 years, cryptography researchers have demonstrated that even the most secure-seeming computer is shockingly vulnerable to attack. The time it takes a computer to store data in memory, fluctuations in its power ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Algorithmic incentives: New twist on 30 year-old work could lead to better ways of structuring contracts

In 1993, MIT cryptography researchers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali shared in the first Gödel Prize for theoretical computer science for their work on interactive proofs — a type of mathematic ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum strategy offers game-winning advantages, even without entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum correlations have well-known advantages in areas such as communication, computing, and cryptography, and recently physicists have discovered that they may help players competing in ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Twists to quantum technique for secret messaging give unanticipated power

Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Bristol may disprove a long-standing conjecture made by one of the founders of quantum information science: that quantum states featuring ‘positive partial transpose’, ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 35 | with audio podcast

Sony's 'CLEFIA' encryption technology adopted as an international standard

Sony Corporation has been working to standardize ‘CLEFIA,’ the block cipher algorithm it developed and presented as a state-of-the-art cryptography technique in 2007, and announced today that after final ISO/IEC ...

Technology / Software

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fake violations of Bell tests reinforce importance of closing loopholes

(PhysOrg.com) -- In quantum mechanics, Bell’s inequalities serve as a test of nonclassical behavior: if something (such as a light source) violates Bell’s inequalities, then it can be considered to involve quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

A switch that lets one photon alter the quantum state of another

Quantum computers are largely theoretical devices that would exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales to perform calculations, in some cases much more rapidly than conventional computers ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Making quantum cryptography truly secure

Quantum key distribution (QKD) is an advanced tool for secure computer-based interactions, providing confidential communication between two remote parties by enabling them to construct a shared secret key ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Quantum physics first: Researchers observe single photons in two-slit interferometer experiment

Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 44 | with audio podcast


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