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Researchers reported an efficient quantum encryption scheme that uses the no-cloning principle to prevent encrypted messages from being successfully copied, addressing a longstanding challenge in quantum cryptography.
The proposed one-time protocol uses classical keys, single-qubit Clifford gates for encryption and local Pauli measurements for decryption while achieving information-theoretic security with an exponentially small attacker advantage.
The study is currently an arXiv preprint limited to one-bit messages in a one-time setting, leaving broader applications and peer review as future steps.
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