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BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tin-cans-and-a-string dept.

anzha writes "BBN Technologies has announced that under DARPA's Quantum Network Project to have built in conjunction with Harvard University the world's first functional quantum encrypted network. This is probably funded under DARPA's Quantum Information Science and Technology Program."

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  1. Lots of DARPA projects doing network stuff... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...one of the DARPA IXO programs, Cougaar, has developed a fair number of message transport techniques over the last few years. Good times.

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  2. I've been wondering. by Retep+Vosnul · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have been reading (snippets) about this subject for... well just as long as /. has been covering it. But I understand that the tapping of this data means that the information is lost . Isn't this the perfect dos attack ? ( just thought I'd plant a silly question )

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