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Re: Quantum cryptography gets "practical"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Furlong)
Fri Oct 8 17:48:07 2004
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From: Steve Furlong <sfurlong@acmenet.net>
To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net
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Date: 07 Oct 2004 15:09:50 -0400
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:27, Dave Howe wrote:
> I have yet to see an advantage to QKE that even mildly justifies the
> limitations and cost over anything more than a trivial link (two
> buildings within easy walking distance, sending high volumes of
> extremely sensitive material between them)
But it's cool!
More seriously, it has no advantage now, but maybe something will come
up. The early telephones were about useless, too, remember. In the mean
time, the coolness factor will keep people playing with it and
researching it.
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