# Turing Award Bestowed for Quantum Informatics Achievements for the First Time

- slug: turing-award-bestowed-for-quantum-informatics-achievements-for-the-first-time-forklog
- date: 2026-03-19
- category: Quantum Computing

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard spent the 1980s arguing that quantum mechanics could solve a problem classical cryptography couldn't: how to establish a secret key between two parties with security guaranteed by physics rather than computational assumptions.

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