{"content":[{"text":"Jan. 25, 2007 \n U of C recruits information security pioneer \n New quantum cryptography lab seeking spy-proof codes will test between U of C and SAIT","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.2079,"width":0.882306,"height":0.09076700000000001}},{"text":"In World War II, secret agents handcuffed suitcases to their wrists, and sent the keys by separate covert \n means. Today’s experts don’t want you to go to such lengths to protect your private information. Indeed, one of \n the latest recruits to the University of Calgary aims to make stolen banking information, compromised medical \n records, and eavesdropping into phone conversations or military intelligence—all threats to information \n security—a worry of the past.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.312748,"width":0.880282,"height":0.08291199999999993}},{"text":"Dr. Wolfgang Tittel, an internationally-renowned physicist recently recruited from the University of Geneva to \n become the new iCORE/General Dynamics Canada Industry Chair in Quantum Cryptography and \n Communication at the U of C, was among the first scientists in the world to apply so-called quantum \n information techniques to applications outside the laboratory. Now he and his colleagues plan to build \n information networks that are impossible to compromise.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.40858,"width":0.859248,"height":0.08291199999999999}},{"text":"Quantum information holds great promise in the area of information security because it’s carried in bundles \n with a particular configuration. If anyone tries to “listen in” as these bundles are transmitted, the bundles \n change configuration, immediately scrambling the information.","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.504413,"width":0.847973,"height":0.05094199999999993}},{"text":"These features make quantum technology ideal for generating ultra-secure quantum “keys” that protect private \n information, like a suitcase with a special lock. Try to pick the lock, and the suitcase blows up.","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.568276,"width":0.877232,"height":0.03503299999999998}},{"text":"“Communication security is so important that we want it to be infinitely secure,” says Tittel, now a principal \n researcher at the U of C’s Institute for Quantum Information Science and its Centre for Information Security \n and Cryptography.","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.616154,"width":0.84908,"height":0.05101800000000001}},{"text":"The centre and the institute rank among the leading academic entities of their kind in Canada. The rich \n possibility for collaboration among physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer security experts was \n instrumental in attracting Tittel to make his international move. “There are only a few groups in the world doing \n information security research as broad as the University of Calgary group,” Tittel says. “And in the area of \n applying quantum theory to fibre optics, there are probably only eight or 10 people in the world.”","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.680093,"width":0.874101,"height":0.08291199999999999}},{"text":"As part of his research program, Tittel will partner with General Dynamics Canada to develop and test quantum \n encryption technologies on a dedicated fibre optic line between the University of Calgary and a laboratory at \n SAIT Polytechnic. The testing will build upon pioneering research Tittel conducted at the University of Geneva, \n where his research group generated the first tests of quantum cryptography technology outside a laboratory. \n He also lead a revolutionary test of quantumly-linked light particles, an 11-kilometre transmission that is still the \n world’s longest on an optical fibre line.","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.775925,"width":0.8819870000000001,"height":0.09889700000000001}},{"text":"“Ultimately, we want to adapt the technology to protect information being sent hundreds of � ilometers, and it \n may even be possible to provide quantum encryptions between continents via satellite communication,” he \n says. \n … Page 1/2","bbox":{"left":0.058825,"top":0.887666,"width":0.882339,"height":0.06719000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.058824,"top":0.045455,"width":0.882353,"height":0.140909}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.058824,"top":0.045455,"width":0.882353,"height":0.140909}]}