Scientists say that hiding secret messages using AI chatbots could lead to a world of iron-clad encryption.

Quantum encryption rests on the idea that if two parties share a secret key, they can scramble a message so that only they can decode it.

What is encryption? Sending encrypted text means the data gets scrambled as it is sent, and only a recipient with the correct "key" can un-scramble and open it.

End-to-end encryption is a system of communication where the only people who can read the messages are the people communicating. No eavesdropper can access the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt ...