Quantmehm to protect plastic cards

The “quantum world” already seeps into our reality, as evidenced by an article on Lenta , which is full of pearls: “the photon resides in several places at once” or “an attempt to peep this authentication procedure will bring down the quantum nature of light” or “if you throw quantum photons on the map” .

"One of my friends" already wrote on Habré about quantum money , and here the Dutch scientists picked up the baton of Stephen Wisner and screwed the photon authentication to plastic cards.
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Original article in pdf. The article itself is interesting. (Published in some serious sources: Optica magazine and in the press release of the American Optical Society.)

Again, the cloning prohibition theorem plays the main role, which does not allow copying the key, based not on technical complexity and mathematical assumptions, but on physical impossibility.

We are waiting for an answer from Chinese nanohackers.

Decisive rule and resistance to attacks: