Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award
One afternoon in October 1979, Gilles Brassard was swimming outside a beachfront hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when a stranger swam up to him and changed the course of his career. Without so much as an introduction, the man began describing a way to create currency that couldn’t be forged. The scheme was based on the laws of quantum physics — a subject Brassard, a computer scientist…
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[1]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers-win-turing-award-20260318/
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