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First quantum crypto bank transfer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Sat Aug 21 15:54:41 2004
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:07:51 -0600
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: "Andrew Thomas" <andrewt@nmh.co.za>
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Subject: First quantum crypto bank transfer
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:05:58 +0200
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Cryptography system goes underground (Aug 19)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/8/13
A group of scientists in Austria and Germany has installed an optical
fibre quantum cryptography system under the streets of Vienna and
used
it to perform the first quantum secure bank wire transfer (A Poppe et
al. 2004 Optics Express 12 3865). The quantum cryptography system
consisted of a transmitter (Alice) at Vienna's City Hall and a
receiver
(Bob) at the headquarters of an Austrian bank. The sites were linked
by
1.45 kilometres of single-mode optical fibre.
--
Andrew G. Thomas
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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