Quantum Key Distribution – explained through ice cream!

Posted By: Kate RussellPosted date: August 21, 2017

As promised, I’m posting the BBC Click Las Vegas episode where I attempt to explain a futuristic type of encryption tech – Quantum Key Distribution – using ice cream. The whole show covers a lot more from the cyber security conferences earlier this month, so I’ll leave the whole thing here. If you want to skip ahead to the QDK package it’s at 19 mins 47 secs.

And if this kind of thing interests you, take another 25 mins out of your daily life to watch the previous week’s episode from Vegas too:

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Kate Russell

Kate Russell is a technology reporter, speaker and author. She appears weekly on the Webscape segment of the BBC technology show Click, and is a regular expert at various other TV and radio stations. Kate's first book, ‘Working the Cloud’, is the ultimate collection of online tips, tricks and resources for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. Her first novel, ‘Elite: Mostly Harmless’, is a sci-fi story based on a remake of the computer game Elite Dangerous.