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Re: Quantum Key Distribution: the bad idea that won't die...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (silky)
Wed Apr 21 18:43:49 2010
Reply-To: michaelslists@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <8739yq6szc.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:48:09 +1000
From: silky <michaelslists@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> Via /., I saw the following article on ever higher speed QKD:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-04/19/super-secure-data-encryption-gets-faster.aspx
>
> Very interesting physics, but quite useless in the real world.
Useless now maybe, but it's preparing for a world where RSA is broken
(i.e. quantum computers) and it doesn't require quantum computers; so
it's quite practical, in that sense.
> 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.
>
> Perry
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