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JPMorgan has generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential applications for security and trading. The certified random numbers can provide verifiable proof for high-stakes industries like critical infrastructure and financial services, and could be used in applications like cryptography, lottery, and auditing.
“It would be good for anything that has an audit trail” to show the numbers are definitely randomly generated, for example the lottery, said Konstantinos Karagiannis, director of quantum computing services at consulting firm Protiviti, who did not participate in the experiment. “In cryptography the provability is the whole thing. It’s provably secure or it’s provably not secure. There is no gray area.”
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