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Oct 2, 2020

This ‘unhackable’ network uses the weird power of quantum physics

Posted by in categories: encryption, engineering, quantum physics

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BT and Toshiba have deployed an ‘unhackable’ quantum network that uses streams of photons to encrypt sensitive communications.

A trial of the network, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will see data transmitted between two engineering facilities in Bristol using encryption keys streamed as ‘encoded’ particles of light.

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