“Current #EncryptionTechnology relies on complex mathematical combinations, but many #scientists believe that the arrival of #QuantumComputers will make this insecure.
By contrast, #Bennett and #Brassard's theory - known as #BB84 - shows that any attempt to hack or copy their #quantum #encryption #key changes the very behaviour of its elements, making replication impossible.”
#TuringAward / #computing <https://bbc.com/news/articles/c7474004g01o>
Turing Award in the Field Of #Quantum #Computing ::
""Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett have been awarded the A. M. Turing Award “for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing”.""
Which is effectively how I feel about crocheting.
"" In 1984, Bennett and Brassard developed the first concept of a quantum encryption key1 — one that the sender of a message could share with the receiver in a stream of photons. They showed that any device trying to intercept that stream would destroy the information stored in the photons, thereby revealing that the transmission had been intercepted. Later that decade, Bennett led a team at IBM that first demonstrated technique experimentally.""
-- Nature (linked below)[1]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00818-z
[1] Dont make me do footnotes
#BB84 #Computer #Science #Protocols
Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year's Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related techno...
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