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London Times on quantum crypto

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. M. Ellis)
Mon Oct 4 11:42:27 1999

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 11:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "K. M. Ellis" <protozoa@tux.org>
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http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/09/29/timintint02001.html?1341
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No Safety in Numbers

After an Israeli research institute said it could break Europe's banking
codes in less than a second, an intitiative has been launched that could
result in unbreakable codes.

The European Institute of Quantum Computing Network was launched on
Monday, to bring companies and research labs throughout Europe together in
the hope that the new technology - Quantum Computing - can be taken from
the theory to the high street.

[snip]

Woo!

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