DTI and e-Envoy to investigate ‘hack-proof’ technology. The government is putting its weight behind quantum cryptography as a key way of making communications hack-proof. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the emerging technologies division of the e-Envoy’s office have unveiled a project to investigate and encourage developments in the technology. Speaking at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit’s second e-Crime Congress last week, Bernard Frieder, the e-Envoy’s director of emerging technologies, told delegates that quantum cryptography could change the way business is done. “Quantum cryptography is an entirely new way of looking at security: it is immune to hacking,” he said. Full Story