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Quantum pioneers win Turing Award for encryption breakthrough

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Quantum pioneers win Turing Award for encryption breakthrough A US physicist and a Canadian computer scientist have won this year's Turing Award for their invention of a form of seemingly unbreakable encryption. Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work, which dates back to 1984, is known as quantum cryptography and has "redefined secure communication and computing", the award's body said. Scie...
The article presents a narrative of scientific breakthrough, emphasizing a technologically deterministic vision of security – a technological solution to a fundamentally human problem. The framing centers heavily on “unbreakable” encryption, a term ripe for critical scrutiny. The emphasis on Bennett’s initial “banknote” idea reveals a fascinating, almost conspiratorial, genesis for the work, hinting at a desire to create an unforgeable artifact – a powerful metaphor for control and security. The...