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NSF Invests $12 Million In Quantum Technologies To Encrypt Communications

Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $12 million in six teams over four years to develop quantum systems that may be used as a way to encrypt data and communications, the foundation said Monday.The systems NSF has in mind would try to encode photons (light particles) with information that travels through fiber optic cables and would be immutably linked to a photon counterpart on the other side of communications, a phenomenon called quantum entanglement. A stream of encrypted data…

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