The MIT mathematicians, that is, sidestepped a weak spot that had plagued cryptographers ever since the days of the ancient Greeks: How do sender and receiver hand off a key without risking that their communication channel or their courier will be compromised in some way?

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Getting a satellite signal out of Perth, for instance, can involve lying prostrate on the ground in the public park next to the CBD with a receiver dish in one hand and a microphone in the other, a bodily feat that requires the kind of physical contortions that might test a Byron Bay yoga instructor.

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Using a battery-powered pen and receiver clipped to the top of a standard sheet of paper, hand movements are tracked and recorded.

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