{"id":239824,"date":"2017-11-27T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=239824"},"modified":"2017-11-27T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T07:54:25","slug":"quantum-encryption-could-be-used-for-voice-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/239824-quantum-encryption-could-be-used-for-voice-calls.html","title":{"rendered":"Quantum encryption could be used for voice calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/11\/e1701491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>quantum encryption key distribution system<\/strong><\/a> which could bring its speed up to that of standard encryption methods.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum encryption uses data encoded into photons using a laser and is lauded as an &#8220;unhackable&#8221; encryption method.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a way to encode two bits into a photon by manipulating the release time of the particle and using high-speed photon detectors.<\/p>\n<p>If the technology is implemented, quantum encryption could be used to secure data transfers and voice calls.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum encryption remains a developing field, with the hardware required large and expensive.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/237086-ibm-builds-50-qubit-quantum-computer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">IBM builds 50-qubit quantum computer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a new quantum encryption key distribution system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":219296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[6298,47564],"class_list":["post-239824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-encryption","tag-quantum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239824\/revisions\/239876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}