(CNN) — Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders.
Hackers are pulling the strings far beyond cyberspace. A research team has uncovered details of a scam to hijack real-world cargo shipments. Here's NPR cybersecurity correspondent Jenna McLaughlin.
Computer scientist Gilles Brassard (left) and physicist Charles Bennett received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography. - Getty Images/AP Years ...