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URL:https://oxon.bcs.org/programme/post-modern-coding-and-cryptography-sec
 uring-the-quantum-internet/
SUMMARY:Post-modern coding and cryptography: securing the quantum internet
DESCRIPTION:\nRichard Pinch\nAnnual Christmas Lecture\nCoding Theory emerge
 d as techniques for transmitting messages correctly in a noisy environment
  and found successful applications from CD/DVD players to space missions. 
 At the same time\, Public Key Cryptography was developed as tool for secur
 ing digital communications\, especially the internet: their security is ba
 sed on the difficulty of solving hard mathematical problems. Recently the 
 advent of nearly practical quantum computers has overturned the assumption
 s about the difficulty of some of those problems.\n\nCoding Theory enters 
 into this story in two surprising and different ways. In this talk I will 
 describe how error-correction techniques are helping to build practical qu
 antum circuits\; and how new public key cryptography ideas based on error 
 correction is providing a new generation of quantum-resistant security.\nA
 bout Richard Pinch\nRichard is a retired civil servant\, whose career has 
 been divided between academic research in pure mathematics and its applica
 tion to cybersecurity. He was the founding head of research at the Heilbro
 nn Institute and has also served as Vice-President of the IMA. He continue
 s in mathematical research as a consultant.\n\nHis interest in coding theo
 ry started when teaching a course in Communication Theory with Charles Gol
 die\, later a student text.\n\n\n\nThere will be a buffet at 18:30 before 
 the lecture begins at 19:30.
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