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First Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography

Posted by timothy on from the sneaky-atoms dept.

An anonymous reader writes with today's announcement that "the Austrian project for Quantum Cryptography made the world's first Bank Transfer via Quantum Cryptography Based on Entangled Photons; see also Einstein-Podolski-Rosen Paradoxon." (For more background, see the recent Slashdot post "Quantum Cryptography Leaving the Lab.")

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  1. Re:How does it defeat repeaters? by einstein · · Score: 5, Informative

    because you wouldn't know which photons contain the data. as soon as you touch it, the other end knows it's datastream has been tampered with.

    This is a good overview.

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