Visa Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are researching methods capable of thwarting quantum computing attack, developing new processes and closely following the race for new encryption standards. Nearly six years ago, researchers at Visa began studying so-called Post-Quantum Cryptography […]
A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. Researchers succeeded in making entanglement between a mechanical oscillator—a vibrating dielectric membrane—and a cloud […]
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a system that could dramatically increase the performance of communications networks while enabling record-low error rates in detecting even the faintest of signals, […]
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today launched the world’s first cloud-based Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG) Service with integrated verification for the user, an important stepping stone on the road to Quantum Advantage. The application developed […]
Quside, a Barcelona-based quantum technology start-up, today announced the commercial release of their first quantum randomness module: the Quside™ FMC 400 which is targeted to high-performance computing and data security applications. The Quside™ FMC 400 […]
Sheffield University spin-out AegiQ has raised £1.4m (€1.5m) to build a semiconductor platform for quantum communications.
So far physicists have developed Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), in which photons are transmitted. The process allows two parties to share, without risk of interception, a secret key used to encrypt and decrypt information. But […]
Unitary designs play an important role in quantum information theory and beyond. Applications include the ubiquitous decoupling technique in quantum information theory, quantum encryption, randomized benchmarking and more. Researchers have studied a weaker form of approximate […]
A mobile banking app based on SK Telecom’s 5G quantum cryptography technology will be introduced at a South Korean bank. Personal information will be thoroughly protected when customers transfer money or going through identity verification […]
A team of researchers from Heriot-Watt University, the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Glasgow has demonstrated a way to transport entangled particles through a commercial fiber cable with 84.4% fidelity. The work […]
Toshiba Corporation, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) and Tohoku University Hospital have demonstrated that quantum cryptographic communications technology can provide genomic medicine with a safe, completely secure data management environment. This was achieved […]
Rigetti Computing, the quantum computing startup that is challenging industry heavyweights like IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave, announced this week that it has closed a $79 million Series C funding round. The round was led by […]
Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have demonstrated a record setting quantum protocol for sharing a secret amongst many parties. The team created an 11-dimensional quantum state and used it […]
Researchers from Caltech and Ben-Gurion University put forward the idea that classical blockchains and smart contracts are potentially useful primitives not only for classical cryptography, but for quantum cryptography as well. Abstractly, a smart contract […]
After spending more than three years examining new approaches to encryption and data protection that could defeat an assault from a quantum computer, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has winnowed the 69 […]
US Department of Energy (DOE) officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on Quantum Computing technology. A report has been issued that lays out a blueprint […]
SIG, ID Quantique and ADVA announced today the implementation of the first quantum encrypted datacenter interconnection with QKD.
Using the random orientation of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic dot after the removal of a current pulse, researchers developed a method of generating a cryptographic key for hardware security using spin-orbit torque. One way […]
Distributed quantum information processing is based on the transmission of quantum data over lossy channels between quantum processing nodes. These nodes may be separated by a few microns or on planetary scale distances, but transmission […]
ITMO University researchers have developed a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system with coherent detection based on subcarrier wave quantum key distribution protocol.
PQShield, a UK post-quantum cryptography startup, today comes out of stealth mode with the announcement of a £5.5m seed funding raise, and news that it has won Bosch as its first customer. Originating from the […]
Chinese researchers have reported the exchange of a secret key for encrypting and decrypting messages over a distance of 1,120 kilometers. Previous work has demonstrated Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) along up to 404 kilometers of coiled optical […]
A team of physicists of the University of Basel and ETH Zurich have developed the theoretical foundations for a QKD communication protocol that offers ultimate privacy protection and can be implemented experimentally. This protocol guarantees […]
Satellite QKD-based secure communications is a hot topic as we wrote in a previous article. China has definitely a leadership in this domain and shows new progress and expertise. Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD), based […]
Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have succeeded in implementing a quantum “hybrid” entanglement swapping protocol. The team has demonstrated a way of connecting different types of quantum nodes that are not necessarily […]