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Electronics – Quantum leap in security

By R&D Editors | August 24, 2012

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Electronics – Quantum leap in
security

Intrusion detection is moving up a couple of notches with a
technology that overcomes one of the main vulnerabilities of
conventional security systems. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s
Quantum Optical Seal, ideal for securing nuclear, military and
chemical facilities, monitors an optical network for tampering
using entangled pulses of light that are exclusively described by
their quantum mechanical properties. “This offers the quantum
optical seal a unique ability to identify sophisticated attempts at
deception, including those attacks that would go unnoticed by more
conventional techniques,” said Travis Humble, who led the team of
inventors. The patented technology is inherently immune to
replication, a standard technique used to defeat less sophisticated
intrusion detection systems.

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