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quantum cryptography

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noun

  1. a method of coding information based on quantum mechanics, which is said to be unbreakable

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Quantum cryptography offers a promising defense by using the rules of quantum physics to secure communication against eavesdropping.

From Science Daily

According to Bitzenbauer, this approach opens the door to modern quantum technologies, be it quantum cryptography or quantum computing.

From Science Daily

One of the aims of quantum cryptography is to make communication secure against eavesdropping.

From Science Daily

This provides a new tool for quantum communication and information processing in which entangled photon pairs can serve as distributed keys in quantum cryptography or store information in a quantum memory device.

From Scientific American

If so, such nonlocality would equal or rival Bell nonlocality, an understanding of which has paved the way for quantum communications and quantum cryptography.

From Scientific American