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Major step ahead for cryptography

Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Secure computers aren't so secure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 10

Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0




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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

The world’s fastest Y-00 stream cipher transmission at 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km

Fumio Futami at Tamagawa University, Quantum ICT Research Institute, announced the world first transmission of the stream cipher by Yuen 2000 protocol (Y-00) at the bit rate of 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM research advances device performance for quantum computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may accelerate the realization of a practical, full-scale quantum computer. For specific ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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 mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality

Alice and Bob have broken up and have moved as far away from each other as possible. But they still have something to sort out: who gets to keep the car. Flipping a coin while talking on the phone to decide who gets to keep ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Terrorists no part of wireless company's growth plan

Digi International Inc. produces an array of wireless devices that allow businesses to do all sorts of things by remote - from monitoring the temperature of a brewer's beer tanks to connecting police and fire departments ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World's toughest encryption scheme found 'vulnerable'

It was announced last week that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure online transactions – a scheme known as AES-256. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Simple security for wireless: no password required

In early August, at the Def Con conference — a major annual gathering of computer hackers — someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees’ cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Physicists offer countermeasure to new quantum eavesdropping attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- As early communications systems using quantum cryptography become commercially available, physicists have been investigating new types of security attacks in an effort to defend against them. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature


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