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Quantum Crypto Inventors Win Turing Award
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard snag computing's top prize for 1980s breakthrough in unbreakable encryption. Their quantum leap promises to safeguard data against tomorrow's quantum threats.
Lavamgam AIMar 18, 20263 min read read
Picture this: back in the 1980s, two physicists dream up a way to send secrets that no hacker—classical or quantum—can crack. Fast forward to today, and that dream just earned them the Turing Award, computer science's Nobel Prize equivalent.
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have been awarded the 2026 A.M. Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography. As The New York Times reports, their work from the 1980s introduced a new breed of encryption designed to be utterly impregnable. Wired...
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