#NEWS Hardening Java Crypto

World's First Cryptographer circa WWII

The new frontier being pursued by government, industry, and academia are automated software tools that are capable of culling vulnerabilities before releasing source code into the wild. When run on existing software, such as the open-source Apache programs managing the world's servers, these tools also are finding a surprising number of vulnerabilities in software that is decades old.
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#NEWS Towards and Unhackable Quantum Internet

Harvard University researchers claim to have uncovered the "missing link" towards an unhackable quantum Internet that one-ups the security of the DarkNet. By correcting for the signal loss in today's quantum key distribution—its Achilles heel—these researchers have demonstrated a prototype quantum repeater that allows the long-distance transmission necessary for an unhackable quantum Internet.

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