Mind-bending maths could stop quantum hackers, but few understand it

  • Written by: Nalini Joshi, Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
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Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn’t a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine the locks that secure our electronic data suddenly stopped...

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