China is to use quantum cryptography to create an “unhackable” communications network. Using the network, some 200 users from the military, government, finance and electricity sectors will be able to send messages without the concern that others may be able to read them.
Traditionally, encryption works by hiding the key needed to read the message in a difficult mathematical problem. But nowadays powerful computers can solve these formerly unsolvable problems.
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