{"id":109860,"date":"2020-07-13T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/this-quantum-random-number-generator-can-never-be-hacked"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:02:27","slug":"this-quantum-random-number-generator-can-never-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/this-quantum-random-number-generator-can-never-be-hacked","title":{"rendered":"This Quantum Random Number Generator Can Never Be Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-quantum-random-number-generator-can-never-be-hacked.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, he added, the method took about 10 minutes to produce 1,024 random strings, whereas current cryptographic processes would need far faster number generators.<\/p>\n<p>The new technique\u2019s first real-world use will come when it\u2019s incorporated into NIST\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=randomness+beacon+livescience&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS722US722&oq=randomness+beacon+livescience&aqs=chrome\u202669i57.3301j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\">randomness beacon<\/a>, a public source of randomness for researchers studying unpredictability, Bierhorst said.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that he hopes the experimental setup could one day be shrunk enough to fit on a computer chip and help in the creation of \u201cunhackable\u201d messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, he added, the method took about 10 minutes to produce 1,024 random strings, whereas current cryptographic processes would need far faster number generators. The new technique\u2019s first real-world use will come when it\u2019s incorporated into NIST\u2019s randomness beacon, a public source of randomness for researchers studying unpredictability, Bierhorst said. But he added that he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}