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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks

28 February 2018

Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve
We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted

7 November 2017

Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors

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