A team of researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption.
Quantum cryptography uses the laws of quantum mechanics to encode data securely. Most researchers consider such quantum networks to be nearly 100% uncrackable. But a group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge was able to ‘listen in’ using a sort of quantum-mechanical wiretap. The trick allowed them to tease out about half of the data, in a way that couldn’t be detected by those transmitting or receiving the message.
More: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070423/full/070423-10.html
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