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size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT>From <A
href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/120703/bus%5f7sci001.shtml">2theadvocate.com</A>:
After 20 years of research, an encryption process is emerging that is considered
unbreakable because it employs the mind-blowing laws of quantum physics. In
November, a small startup called MagiQ Technologies Inc. began selling what
appears to be the first commercially available system that uses individual
photons to transfer the numeric keys that are widely used to encode and read
secret documents. <BR>MagiQ (pronounced "magic," with the "Q" for "quantum")
expects this will appeal to banks, insurers, government agencies, pharmaceutical
companies and other organizations that transmit sensitive information. "We think
this is going to have a huge, positive impact on the world," said Bob Gelfond,
MagiQ's founder and chief executive. Encryption schemes commonly used now are
considered safe, though they theoretically could be broken someday. But even
before that day arrives, Gelfond believes quantum encryption is superior in one
important way. In some super-high-security settings, people sharing passwords
and other information must have the same key, a massive string of digits used to
encode data. Sometimes the keys will be transferred by imperfect means -- via
courier or special software. They are not changed very often and can be
susceptible to interception. <BR>Quantum encryption employs one of the defining
discoveries of physics: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says subatomic
particles exist in multiple possible states at once, however hard as that may be
to imagine, until something interacts with them.</DIV></BODY></HTML>