Quantum leap in security: Researchers sent stable, unhackable quantum keys over 120 km of fiber using semiconductor quantum dots and time-bin encoding. Record performance: The system achieved the ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward ultra-secure quantum communication by demonstrating a remarkably stable quantum encryption system that worked across more than 120 kilometers of optical fiber ...

Quantum networking introduces a security model where interception is physically detectable, signaling a shift from encryption-based defense to infrastructure-level protection strategies #Cybersecurity ...

Quantum secure communication uses quantum mechanisms to secure classical (non-quantum) communication and is fundamental to national information security and socioeconomic development. One of the ...

In December 2024, a team at Google published a result in Nature that physicists had been chasing for nearly three decades: a ...

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Andrew Jenkins has worked as an information analyst for an intelligence agency in Washington, D.C., for over 14 years. He is the author of the 2022 book, The Devil Made Crypto. Follow him on LinkedIn.

In the race to secure digital infrastructure against the looming threat of quantum computing, space has emerged as an indispensable theater. Satellites, once primarily vehicles for reconnaissance and ...