Between Gaithersburg and College Park, Maryland, a single strand of fiber optic cable hangs from utility poles along a route ...

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 ...

Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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Quantum computers, systems that process and store information leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, could eventually outperform classical computers on numerous tasks. Among other things, these ...