It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

But now a different award has become the latest sign that the revolution may be quantized, which is to say its information will be protected using quantum technology. On Wednesday, a Canadian and U.S.

American physicist Charles Bennett and Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard have won the 2025 Turing Award, for pioneering quantum cryptography, a method designed to provide secure ...

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