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Quantum random numbers with a phone

Published Jul 1, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

If you feel nervous when you make a credit-card transaction using your mobile phone, your worries could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a low-cost device that could bring powerful cryptography to portable devices.

DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/27/07/09

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