Encryption
Making quantum encryption practical
May 20, 2013
An MIT team that proposed a new, more-practical scheme for using quantum physics to secure data transmission has now demonstrated it experimentally.
Beefing up public-key encryption
February 15, 2013
MIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption.
Securing your eW-2 tax form
February 1, 2013
As with any personal data accessed online, there are measures that can be taken to minimize risk.
10-year-old problem in theoretical computer science falls
July 31, 2012
Interactive proofs — mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography — work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.
Hippie days
June 27, 2011
How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.
Also labeled: Books and authors, Faculty, History of science, Physics, Quantum computing, Technology and society
Protecting medical implants from attack
June 13, 2011
A new system would jam wireless signals sent to medical implants by unauthorized users.
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