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3 unusual facts about Stephen Wiesner


Oblivious transfer

In the early seventies Stephen Wiesner introduced a primitive called multiplexing in his seminal paper "Conjugate Coding",

Quantum cryptography

Quantum cryptography was proposed first by Stephen Wiesner, then at Columbia University in New York, who, in the early 1970s, introduced the concept of quantum conjugate coding.

Qubit

The concept of the qubit was unknowingly introduced by Stephen Wiesner in 1983, in his proposal for unforgeable quantum money, which he had tried to publish for over a decade.



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