South African physicists are using quantum cryptography to encrypt messages and data networks between Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium and police headquarters during the World Cup. The system, which uses particles of light, or photons, instead of math functions, is an emerging technology in the effort to thwart hackers, thought to already be in place for military and intelligence use, but rarely talked about in public. The system was developed by ID Quantique.
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Hoi-Kwong Lo, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, led a team that successfully hacked the ID Quantique system in a laboratory setting, and comments on commercial security systems and their “hackability.”
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