Stories about: Quantum

Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution.

The hugely promising security technology of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has moved an important step closer to commercialization with the announcement by UK-based researchers that they can now shift encryption keys around at speeds of 1Mbps.

CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work.

A US engineer has devised a seemingly foolproof and cheap way to encrypt messages using the natural noise caused by electrons flowing along a wire.

New diamond-based quantum cryptography technology, designed to protect against Internet hacking, could become a marketable reality as soon as 2008, researchers say.

Scientists have reported an important speed breakthrough which brings closer the day when quantum encryption becomes a usable part of communications security.

Complexity in software design needs to be eliminated otherwise computing's future era will be no more secure than applications in the current era.

The FBI's new CIO must change the agency's cultural bias against information-sharing and technology before it can become a global intelligence operation truly capable of preventing crime and terrorism.

The most familiar names in network security are neither vendors nor geeks: Try Alice and Bob.

Digital crime and online security threats will skyrocket in 2005 as a result of the rapid growth in portable Internet and mobile technology, and the technology industry will see a boom in the development of nanotechnology and fuel cell batteries Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predicted this week.