World Cup deploys new technology to baffle hackers
June 22nd, 2010 - 1:59 pm ICT by ANIWashington June 22 (ANI): South-African physicists are working on a technology called’Quantum Cryptography’ to thwart hackers from leaking out information about the FIFA World Cup.
It will prevent hackers from monitoring videos, emails and phone calls
relayed between Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium and a nearby
operations center for police, firefighters, and military personnel.
“The goal is to ensure not only the confidentially but also the integrity of this
information,” Fox News quoted Gregoire Ribordy, CEO of ID Quantique in
Geneva as saying.
The system has been developed by ID Quantique in Geneva with the help of
Senetas Corporation in Australia whose clients are primarily military and
financial organizations, which used similar technology to secure ballot
information in the 2007 Swiss elections.
The Quantum Cryptography uses the principles of quantum mechanics to
provide theoretically uncrackable security.
“It’s much easier to hack a system than to make a system secure,” Fox
News quoted Hoi Kwong Lo, researcher at the University of Toronto, as
saying.
Using this technology is a part of a larger plan to deploy quantum security
systems throughout Durban. (ANI)
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