{"id":228479,"date":"2026-01-07T02:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/solving-quantum-computings-longstanding-no-cloning-problem-with-an-encryption-workaround"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:25:28","slug":"solving-quantum-computings-longstanding-no-cloning-problem-with-an-encryption-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/solving-quantum-computings-longstanding-no-cloning-problem-with-an-encryption-workaround","title":{"rendered":"Solving quantum computing\u2019s longstanding \u2018no cloning\u2019 problem with an encryption workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solving-quantum-computings-longstanding-no-cloning-problem-with-an-encryption-workaround.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the fundamental \u201cno cloning\u201d problem. The research, \u201cEncrypted Qubits can be Cloned,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/y4y1-1ll6\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is an exciting technological frontier, where information is stored and processed in tiny units\u2014called qubits. Qubits can be stored, for example, in individual electrons, photons (particles of light), atoms, ions or tiny currents.<\/p>\n<p>Universities, industry, and governments around the world are spending billions of dollars to perfect the technology for controlling these qubits so that they can be combined into large, reliable quantum computers. This technology will have powerful applications, including in cybersecurity, materials science, medical research and optimization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the fundamental \u201cno cloning\u201d problem. The research, \u201cEncrypted Qubits can be Cloned,\u201d appears in Physical Review Letters. Quantum computing is an exciting technological frontier, where information is stored and processed in tiny units\u2014called qubits. Qubits can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228479","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}