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Inside the race to keep secrets safe from the quantum computing revolution
Start-ups are taking part in a global competition to upgrade encryption to fend off the quantum computing threat
28 February 2021 • 12:00pm
The algorithms that have kept state secrets safe and confidential messages private since the 1970s are about to be broken.
Security experts disagree on how long it will take - some say within five years, others a decade. But they’re all convinced that it’s just a matter of years until it happens.
Encryption will be broken not by a group of skilled hackers or via industrial espionage, but through breakthroughs in quantum computing, allowing governments to perform calculations that can untangle the complex mathematics that have kept our privacy for decades.
New Laser Number Generator System Could Enable More Secure Data Encryption
Written by AZoOpticsFeb 26 2021
A new system created by an international group of researchers exhibits the ability to generate random numbers more than 100 times quicker than existing technologies, thus opening the door to quicker, cost-effective, more secure data encryption in the present-day’s digitally connected world.
Image Credit: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The random number generator system was collaboratively designed by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Trinity College Dublin, and Yale University and made in NTU.
Random numbers serve a range of purposes, for example, producing data encryption keys and one-time passwords (OTPs) in day-to-day processes, such as e-commerce and online banking to boost up their security.
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Breakthrough in steel manufacturing could lower carbon emissions in car industry
University of Sheffield engineers have developed a new way of making lightweight, high strength steel that can be easily adapted to mass manufacturing
New way of making steel could help car manufacturers who are looking to use lightweight, high strength steel to make their vehicles lighter and more sustainable
Sheffield method uses copper – an element previously cast aside by the steel industry because of the detrimental effects it can have on certain types of steel
A new breakthrough in steel manufacturing that could also help to lower CO₂ emissions from the car industry, has been made by engineers at the University of Sheffield.