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Methods to make the random numbers we request for unafraid communications are each flawed successful immoderate way, but quantum computers that beryllium contiguous could nutrient random numbers that can't beryllium faked
By Alex Wilkins
18 March 2023
Quantum computers specified arsenic Google’s Sycamore could beryllium enactment to usage creating numbers that are guaranteed to beryllium genuinely random HANNAH BENET/Google
Quantum computers tin beryllium utilized to make genuinely random numbers that can’t beryllium faked – which could beryllium utile for unafraid communications oregon cryptocurrency networks similar Ethereum.
The process could beryllium tally connected today’s champion quantum systems, specified arsenic Google’s Sycamore processor, and would beryllium the archetypal genuinely applicable task that would beryllium intolerable without a quantum machine, accidental the researchers involved.
Random numbers are wide utilized successful cybersecurity …
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