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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Erika Hobbs

Using quantum data to create an unhackable Internet: ‘We’re getting close,’ University of Chicago expert leading project says

A superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering quantum research lab, where scientists are working on a quantum Internet network. (Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times)

You gave up using your pet’s name for your password, endured two-step authentification and barely can keep track of all of your passwords. But you still get hacked. For many, it’s the bane of today’s digital existence.

Now, at two federal Department of Energy physics labs in the west suburbs, University of Chicago scientists are working on creating what once might have seemed like science fiction: an unhackable Internet.

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