By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Weekly News -- DURHAM, N.C. -- Recent advances in quantum computers may soon give hackers access to machines powerful enough to crack even the toughest of standard internet security codes. With these codes broken, all of our online data -- from medical records to bank transactions -- could be vulnerable to attack.
To fight back against the future threat, researchers are wielding the same strange properties that drive quantum computers to create theoretically hack-proof forms of quantum data encryption.
And now, these quantum encryption techniques may be one step closer to wide-scale use thanks to a new system developed by scientists at Duke University, The Ohio State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Their system is capable of creating and distributing encryption codes at megabit-per-second rates, which is five to 10 times faster than existing methods and on par with current internet speeds when running several systems in parallel.
The researchers demonstrate that the technique is secure from common attacks, even in the face of equipment …
CITATION: (2017-12-13), High-speed quantum encryption may help secure the future internet, Computer Weekly News, 262, ISSN: 1944-1606, BUTTER® ID: 014824753
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