By Colin Jeffrey  September 5, 2014

 

http://images.gizmag.com/hero/quantumencryption.jpgThe new device incorporates quantum photon polarization to generate random numbers and create cryptographic keys.

 With a new device set to make unbreakable, quantum-based cryptographic security available for everyone for the very first time, ordinary people will be able to use cryptographic systems that – until recently – only existed as experiments in the most advanced physics laboratories.Using technology developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and incorporating the quantum mechanics of random photon polarization, the new device generates random numbers and creates cryptographic keys so fast and so securely that the technology is said to revolutionize high-speed cryptography and offer a completely new commercial platform for real-time encryption at high data rates.

 

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