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Friday, January 12, 2007

"QUANTUM: Partners claim gigabit quantum encryption"

Quantum encryption is uncrackable, but depends on communicating individual photons as encryption keys. That physical limit means individual photons take time to communicate, slowing overall data rates. Now quantum cyptography company id Quantique SA (Geneva) has teamed with Australian cyptography company Senetas Corp. Ltd. (Melbourne) to create what the partners claim in the world's first 1- to 10-Gbit/s secure network that combines uncrackable quantum keys with classical encryption.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900495