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Quantum encryption

Is the current generation of electronic encryption strong enough to protect your information online today? The American Standards Office thinks not
An algorithm developed by Prof. Itai Dinor at Ben Gurion University seems promising in several ranges of common parameters in encryption applications, but this algorithm, like the others, requires a lot of memory, so it is not yet certain whether it will be applicable for attacks, but it is still worth investigating
The researchers succeeded in creating an extremely tiny device that produces and emits single photons and on which the information can be transmitted in a quantum bit. Every contact, or even the performance of a measurement necessarily changes the information encoded on the photon and this will be expressed, upon reaching the destination, in an error in the protocol and giving an indication of the hacking attempt
Israeli research led by Dr. Yaron Bromberg from the Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University succeeded for the first time in transmitting single and interwoven light particles in a focused manner through a scattering medium * The experiment is another significant step towards the development of an Israeli satellite that can encrypt security information in an impenetrable manner
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