Future Watch: Security: Quantum key technology boasts unbreakable encryption

摘要

A Boston startup called Whitewood Encryption Systems has licensed security technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico to create and market an "unbreakable" quantum key cryptography solution. The low-cost device, which Los Alamos scientists say is simple and compact enough to be made into a thumb-drive-size unit, uses the quantum properties of light for generating random numbers. These random numbers create cryptographic keys for real-time encryption at high data rates.