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Re: First quantum crypto bank transfer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Aug 21 18:38:12 2004

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To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:00:59 +0200
In-Reply-To: <p06110404bd4bb625c1c7@[192.9.200.153]> (R. A. Hettinga's message
	of "Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:07:51 -0600")

* R. A. Hettinga:

> Subject: First quantum crypto bank transfer

Not quite correct, the first bank transfer occurred earlier this year,
in a PR event arranged by the same group:

  <http://www.quantenkryptographie.at/rathaus_press.html>

However, I still don't believe that quantum cryptography can buy you
anything but research funding (and probably easier lawful intercept
because end-to-end encryption is so much harder).

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