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Speed boost helps quantum codes on their way.

Australasian Business Intelligence, August, 2006

Aug 29, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The idea of using quantum physics to protect information is at last coming closer to reality. So far, quantum cryptography systems that generate keys for encoding and decoding information have been frustratingly, unviably slow. It has only been possible to create impregnable keys at the speed of one bit per second, or easily-broken keys at a faster rate. However, researchers at Stanford University in the US have succeeded in transmitting extremely secure keys ay 166 bits per second. The technique involves encoding the key in the phase of the quantum particles.

Publication Date: 26 August 2006

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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