“Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for Enemies to Swap Messages”

I just thought that this was funny. I have no idea what they’re talking about. Okay, I have some idea but not much of one.

QUANTUM COMPUTING: Safer Coin Tosses Point to Better Way for Enemies to Swap Messages
by Charles Seife

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In an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, physicists describe an experiment in which a fair coin flip is performed quantum-mechanically; if one party tries to cheat, the deception is quickly revealed, something that scientists don’t know how to guarantee with classical computers.

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