Researchers aiming to create a secure quantum version of the internet need a device called a quantum repeater, which doesn't yet exist - but now two teams say they are well on the way to building one
  • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    This was a good read, though I understand very little of it. Still, it’s exciting to imagine what possibilities this will allow and what potential needs it could fulfill. Anyone have some insight they’d like to share?

    • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      20·
      18 days ago

      Well, with quantum internet, your browser history will exist in a superposition of both cleared and full of porn, each moment when showing someone your screen will be filled with tension. The only way out of that tension will be either to collapse the function by butt fucking, or inquire the state of their browser history.

    • cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Mostly secure key exchange via quantum key distribution. QKD automatically detects eavesdropping and can thereby guarantee a secure key exchange based on fundamental physics. That’s basically it.

        • cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world
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          18 days ago

          Yes, physically secure key exchange, but at Tage same time mist progress also correlates with progress in quantum computing and quantum attacks on classical crypto and most key security problems are not due to transport attacks. But its a good thing.