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Contact: Laura Ost
laura.ost@nist.gov
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Caption: NIST physicist Xiao Tang and colleagues have developed a quantum communications system that uses single photons to produce a "raw" encryption key at the rate of 4 million bits per second.
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