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Giant Fiber Lasers For Secure Communication
September 30, 2006 Very long lasers made of optical fibers offer a promising route to highly secure communications. Nothing beats quantum communication for absolute security, but the new method, which relies on ... > full story -
Entanglement Unties A Tough Quantum Computing Problem
September 29, 2006 Error correction coding is a fundamental process that underlies all of information science, but the task of adapting classical codes to quantum computing has long bumped up against what seemed to be ... > full story -
Team Sends Quantum Encryption 'Keys' Over Record Distances
September 26, 2006 Using an innovative sensor for detecting single photons, the smallest particles of light, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and ... > full story -
Personal Data Protection Vital To Future Civil Liberties
September 25, 2006 When micro-sized sensors can enquire our business in a particular neighbourhood, and equally micro-sized agents embedded within our clothing answer on our behalf, what are the risks to our personal ... > full story -
Computer Engineers Create New System To Curb Phishing Fraud
September 1, 2006 Carnegie Mellon University Cylab researchers have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect users from online transactions at fraudulent Web ... > full story -
Stealth Attack Drains Cell Phone Batteries
August 29, 2006 Cell phones that can send or receive multimedia files could be targeted by an attack that stealthily drains their batteries, leaving cellular communications networks useless, according to computer ... > full story -
First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network Demonstrated
August 28, 2006 A joint collaboration between Northwestern University and BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has led to the first demonstration of a truly quantum cryptographic data network. By integrating ... > full story -
Cardiff Researchers Discover Online Banking Security Problem
August 10, 2006 Two researchers working within Cardiff University's School of Computer Science, Professor Antonia J Jones and Joseph R Rabaiotti, together with a third independent researcher Stuart P Goring, have ... > full story -
JitterBugs Could Turn Your Computer Keyboard Against You, Warn Engineers
August 7, 2006 Engineers from the University of Pennsylvania warn against an entirely new threat to computer security: bugs implanted in peripheral devices, such as keyboards or mice. This new class of devices ... > full story -
Quantum Information Research Could Transform The Power Of Computing
August 4, 2006 Although presently a very young field, Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) could well have a vital role to play in future information and communication technologies. Quantum computing ... > full story
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