It is touted as a step towards ultimate security. It is an encryption system that protects a network and that allegedly is “unbreakable”:

“…In practice this means using the ultimate quantum objects: photons, the atoms of light. Incredibly faint beams of light equating to single photons fired a million times a second raced between the nodes in the Vienna network.

Each node, housed in a different Siemens office (Siemens has provided the fibre links), contains a small rack of electronics - boxes about the size of a PC, and a handful of sensitive light detectors.”

link: ‘Unbreakable’ encryption unveiled

The claim is that the system is secure to the point that it is hacker proof. The uniqueness with the quantum is that any attempt to compromise it also destroys it. In effect, the system would protect itself.

Catherine Forsythe

It is touted as a step towards ultimate security. It is an encryption system that protects a network and that allegedly is “unbreakable”:

“…In practice this means using the ultimate quantum objects: photons, the atoms of light. Incredibly faint beams of light equating to single photons fired a million times a second raced between the nodes in the Vienna network.

Each node, housed in a different Siemens office (Siemens has provided the fibre links), contains a small rack of electronics - boxes about the size of a PC, and a handful of sensitive light detectors.”

link: ‘Unbreakable’ encryption unveiled

The claim is that the system is secure to the point that it is hacker proof. The uniqueness with the quantum is that any attempt to compromise it also destroys it. In effect, the system would protect itself.

Catherine Forsythe