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Re: Quantum Key Distribution: the bad idea that won't die...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Tue Apr 20 18:17:15 2010
In-Reply-To: <8739yq6szc.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:07:06 -0700
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
At 11:31 AM -0400 4/20/10, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>I wonder why it is that, in spite of almost universal disinterest in the
>security community, quantum key distribution continues to be a subject
>of active technological development.
You hit it: "almost". As long as a few researchers are interested, and there is money to be thrown down the drain^w^w^wat them, there will be active development.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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