Emma Hughes the Inquirer, Thursday 9 October 2008. 15:40:00

With a little help from Albert Einstein

DATA SECURITY worries could soon be an anxiety of the past as in a world-first discovery quantum cryptography is used to form an unbreakable encryption. Around 41 partners from 12 European countries have been working with academics from the University of Bristol since 2004 towards this ultimate goal – yesterday was the first time a commercial communication network was demonstrated in Vienna using this ‘unbreakable’ encryption. This kind of security will be of great use to users such as government agencies and financial institutions but could also potentially allow online transactions to be PIN protected using secret bits shared with a bank to encode the secret number….



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