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HTTP:: Quantum Cryptography Brought Closer to the Masses
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A new business partnership between Siemens IT Solutions and Services, in the Netherlands, and id Quantique, from Geneva, Switzerland, promises to bring the goal of accessible quantum cryptography one step closer to general use by the masses, officials from the two companies have announced recently, according to Technology Review. In this communication method, light particles called photons are used to scramble transmission data, in a way that requires vast amounts of computer power and a lot of time to break and decipher. In spite of the fact that the new technology has been available worldwide for a few years now, only a select few have thus far been able to afford it. We are talking here about governments and large corporations, which are the only entities with sufficient money to design and construct the point-to-point optical cable networks that quantum cryptography requires to work. The new partnership is designed to provide even individuals and small companies with !
state-of-the-art security for their data, in a new package that includes the devices and cables needed. Explaining the principles on which this type of technology works is fairly complicated. Data is encoded using photons, the elementary particles that make up light. They are coded with a key that the two parties using the system k...
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