Wednesday, May 08, 2013

The US government has been running a quantum Internet for over two years


It’s a perfectly secure Internet that by definition cannot be penetrated by wiretaps and eavesdropping — and the US government has been sitting on it for the last two-and-a-half years.

A longtime goal among cryptologists has been to perfect the“quantum Internet” — which, in the most basic way possible, uses the main principle of quantum mechanics to transfer communications from one point to another.

Still confused? Technology Review explained it as easily as possible .... http://rt.com