AWS Suffers Sunday Morning Anomalies in Virginia

Amazon Web Services experienced significant error rates for a number of its cloud services in the the US-EAST-1 region ( northern Virginia data center). The disruption occurred between 2:13 AM and 8:15 AM PDT, when AWS posted that the issue was resolved. Media websites reported that the AWS incident took down number a number of popular websites for the eastern U.S., including Netlix. http://status.aws.amazon.com/?nc2=h_l2...

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NTT and University of Tokyo Cite Progress in Quantum Cryptography

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone(NTT) and The University of Tokyo reported progress in developing a quantum cryptography scheme that can assure security without monitoring the error rate of photon transmission. In an article in the UK science journal “Nature Photonics”, the researchers describe a quantum key distribution (QKD) experiment based on a novel QKD scheme called the round-robin differential phase shift (RRDPS) protocol. NTT said the experiment...

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