Open AccessFrom Quantum Cheating to Quantum Security
Author(s) -
Daniel Gottesman,
HoiKwong Lo
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
physics today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1945-0699
pISSN - 0031-9228
DOI - 10.1063/1.1333282
Subject(s) - cheating , quantum , computer security , physics , computer science , quantum mechanics , biology , evolutionary biology
For thousands of years, code-makers and code-breakers have been competing forsupremacy. Their arsenals may soon include a powerful new weapon: quantummechanics. We give an overview of quantum cryptology as of November 2000.
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