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IEEE Spectrum November 2008 |
Q&A With Post-Quantum Computing Cryptography Researcher Jintai Ding Quantum computers may be the perennial "computer of the future," but if (or when) they do become a reality, their sheer power could threaten the security of our information-technology infrastructure.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Saswato R. Das |
Quantum Cryptography Cracked? Swedes find vulnerability in supposedly secure quantum cryptography system.  |
Technology Research News September 19, 2005 |
Two Schools of Cryptography Hard numbers vs. uncertainty: Computationally secure methods use cryptographic keys that are answers to difficult-to-solve mathematical problems. Probabilistically secure methods use cryptographic keys chosen at random from a fast source of random signals.  |
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional.  |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Quantum crypto scheme doubly fast Researchers have found a way to double the speed of information transfer over quantum cryptography systems.  |
RootPrompt.org April 17, 2000 Lance Spitzner |
Digital Certificates & Encryption Digital Certificates & Encryption - how they work and apply to Internet Commerce.  |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Five Photons Linked Researchers have entangled five photons - a key step in quantum computing which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers.  |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power.  |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude.  |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Bank Transfer Demos Quantum Crypto As quantum cryptography nears practical application, researchers are working on the next generation of the technology, which includes the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement.  |
Science News December 8, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Mathematical Police Find Security Bug Cryptographers uncover potential weakness in encryption algorithms.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Joshua J. Romero |
Physicist Named MacArthur Fellow for Work on Quantum Computing Alexei Kitaev's theoretical studies may lead the way to quantum computers that catch their own errors  |
PC Magazine November 2, 2004 John R. Quain |
Encryption Skeleton Key? Could a claimed math proof unlock secrets?  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Saswato R. Das |
"Mother of All Quantum Networks" Unveiled in Vienna EU-sponsored quantum-cryptography network unparalleled in size and complexity  |
JavaWorld January 2001 Todd Sundsted |
Construct secure networked applications with certificates, Part 1 Public-key cryptography's importance to network security must not be overlooked. However, trust issues challenge public-key cryptography's usage in enterprise-scale settings...  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Atom Demo Fixes Quantum Errors Researchers have demonstrated a way to correct errors in qubits of beryllium ions held in an electromagnetic trap.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Quantum Crypto Scheme Goes One-Way Quantum cryptography researchers from Toshiba Research have demonstrated a one-way quantum key distribution system that automatically compensates for phase drift.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Optical Quantum Memory Designed Quantum computers that use photons rather than atoms or electrons are appealing because the equipment needed to handle them can be relatively simple. A scheme for trapping photons in fiber-optic loops and replacing the photons that the loops absorb could be the answer.  |
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley |
Design links quantum bits Realizing the potential of phenomenally fast quantum computers means having to link thousands of quantum bits, which are the transistors of such computers. So far researchers have been able to connect only a few. A scheme for linking many tiny superconducting loops may pull it all together.  |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Faster quantum crypto demoed Working out how to use only standard telecommunications gear to transmit cryptographic keys could dramatically improve quantum cryptography's paltry performance.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Photons Teleported Six Kilometers Real-life teleportation will never come close to the teleportation of fiction, but instantly sending single quantum particles like photons from one place to another has been proved possible in laboratory experiments and promises to extend the reach of quantum cryptography, which offers potentially perfect security.  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Quantum Crypto Boosted to 2 GHz Researchers have upped the speed of their quantum key exchange system to 2 gigahertz over several kilometers of optical telecommunications fiber.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Michael Brooks |
Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Commercializing Quantum Keys It's a strange business, turning the esoteric quantum properties of light into money. But there are a few brave companies that have been trying to do just that for the last five years, and they may have hit on the right way to do it.  |
CIO April 1, 2002 John Edwards |
Secure Light Streams New technology could eventually lead to the mainstream adoption of quantum cryptography, a secure form of optical communications that's virtually impervious to hacker attacks...  |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Atom spouts photons on demand California Institute of Technology researchers have fashioned a single atom into a light source that generates single photons on demand.  |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Pentagon Wants Off-the-Charts Computing Speeds The Defense Department awarded researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $7.5 million grant to build the foundation for a quantum supercomputer, a machine that can harness more power than all of the world's current computers combined.  |
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Quantum crypto network debuts The network is the first step toward bringing the potentially perfect security of quantum cryptography to the Internet.  |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Quantum Key Distribution Several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market, quantum key distribution, used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission.  |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Sturdy Quantum Crypto Proposed Quantum cryptography systems promise potentially perfect security because it is impossible to eavesdrop on bits encoded in single photons without revealing the security breach.  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc.  |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Speedy Photon Detector Debuts Researchers have devised a fast, efficient photon detector that senses individual photons.  |
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 |
Trapped Light Pulses Interact Researchers at Harvard University have showed that light pulses can be trapped and held in a rubidium vapor and made to interact with one another. The method could eventually be used in quantum cryptographic and quantum computing schemes.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Pixels speed quantum crypto Crossing quantum physics with computer displays yields a new way of encoding information in photons. Using photons as pixels lets researchers encode more information per photon, promising higher data rates for quantum cryptography.  |
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum computing catches the bus National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have tapped an aspect of classical computers and a pair of weird particle traits to allow distant particles, or qubits, to communicate as though they were in contact.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Simple optics make quantum relay Quantum cryptography devices and networks, which transport photons whose properties can be used to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information, could also benefit from repeaters.  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al. |
The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.  |
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Teleport lifts quantum computing Researchers transported the states of charged atoms and showed that it is possible to do so on demand. The feat boosts the prospects for building quantum computers that employ trapped ions, quantum particles that live long enough to carry out multiple computations.  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
Light Writes Info Into Atoms Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to transfer information encoded in the properties of photons to atoms.  |
JavaWorld December 2002 Michael Juntao Yuan |
Data security in mobile Java applications Learn how to select and use third-party security toolkits  |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 |
Technique detects quantum state Researchers from the University of Rome in Italy have pushed theorized "perfect" quantum cryptography schemes forward by demonstrating a method for detecting quantum entanglement among subatomic particles.  |
PC Magazine September 26, 2007 Lisa Zyga |
Quantum Computers Get Smarter A recent innovation could make computing with light viable.  |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Teleportation goes the distance Teleportation makes it possible to transmit the quantum states, or structural information, of photons from one place to another. And making photons from one location materialize at another without traveling the distance between opens the way for sending messages long distances.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Morgen E. Peck |
Geneva Vote Will Use Quantum Cryptography A system that produces unbreakable encryption based on the quantum properties of light will be used to secure the electronic transmission of votes in a Swiss election next week.  |
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Polymer Serves up Single Photons Researchers have made a room-temperature, single-photon source using polymer molecules that could be used in quantum cryptography devices and eventually for quantum computing  |
Popular Mechanics August 26, 2008 |
Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space.  |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Particle chains make quantum wires The method is a step toward building quantum computers, which have the potential to solve certain types of very large problems.  |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 |
Big qubits linked over distance Researchers working on quantum computing managed to entangle a pair of large quantum bits that were spaced nearly a millimeter apart.  |