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  The race for the unbreakable password is almost over Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 15:32 -0600
    Re: The race for the unbreakable password is almost over jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-26 22:31 +0000

#548394 — The race for the unbreakable password is almost over

The race for the unbreakable password is almost over
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/unbreakable-quantum-password/

> Quantum cryptography is the use of physics, specifically quantum
> mechanics, to build secret codes. It is so secure, so difficult to
> intercept, some call it unhackable. Banking, medical, business and
> government records around the world could be made secure from outside
> intruders.
>


> So what can everyone else do to protect their digital messages and
> data from the potential of quantum hackers?
>
> Simple. “You send the messages in a quantum state,” said Boston
> University quantum physicist Alexander Sergienko.
>
> Quantum cryptography uses photons to send secret messages between two
> people. Think of it as a tin-can telephone, wherein a nylon string
> transmits two people’s voices via tin cans. With quantum
> cryptography, the string is replaced by a stream of photons — the
> basic unit of rays of light. So rather than sending email as
> electronic bits (1s and 0s), the two people send quantum messages
> using photons with two different physical states.
>
> Due to the foundations of quantum — namely the Heisenberg Uncertainty
> Principle — it’s impossible to copy or intercept these photons
> without altering them and alerting the message recipient. To return
> to the tin-can telephone analogy, it’s impossible for an eavesdropper
> to intercept a quantum message without cutting the string.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The race for the unbreakable password is almost over
>> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/unbreakable-quantum-password/

Computer engineering, spamming shit head.

Did you ask amiller@newshour.org for permission to copy their copyrighted
material, shit head?


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Jim Pennino

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