Quantum cryptography: now ready for space travel

#-Link-Snipped-#It's been awhile since we've heard of any major advancements in the world of #-Link-Snipped-#, but at long last the silence is being broken by a squad of jubilant Austrian physicists. As the story goes, a team from Austria's Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) managed to send "entangled photons" 90 miles between the Spanish islands of Las Palmas and the Balearics. Calling the ephemeral test successful, the crew has boldly asserted that it's now feasible to send "this kind of unbreakable encrypted communication through space using satellites." Funny -- last we remember, quantum cryptography still had #-Link-Snipped-# to work through here beneath the stratosphere.Filed under: #-Link-Snipped-#

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