Britain is investing £2.5 billion in quantum technologies in the hope it can provide a ChatGPT-style boost to the economy and protect against spies, the Science Minister has said.
DUBLIN After more than a year of easy-to-hack pandemic-induced Zoom meetings, the world could be "one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls," according to a British-led team of scientists. The group, which includes academics from Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, claim in the journal Science Advances to have discovered how to facilitate hack-proof "quantum-secure conversation" between four parties. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, what the team calls the "global reliance on remote collaborative working, including conference calls," has led to a "significant escalation of cyberattacks on popular teleconferencing platforms in the last year." The team said their newly published research is "a timely advance" that "could lead to conference calls with inherent unhackable security measures, underpinned by the principles of quantum physics."
The world is one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls, thanks to a collaboration between Quantum Communications Hub researchers and their German colleagues, enabling a quantum-secure conversation to take place between four parties simultaneously.