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Quantum crypto announcement from Mitsubishi

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P.J. Ponder)
Tue Oct 3 11:41:18 2000

Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:47:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
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>From ZDNet Asia (last week):

http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/dailynews/story/0,2000010021,20072964,00.htm

Unbreakable cryptographic communication made possible 

26 September 2000   

Mitsubishi has successfully realized quantum cryptographic communication
systems as a security system.

TOKYO - Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and the Research Institute for
Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, announced today the success of
their quantum cryptographic experimental system. 

This is the first report in Japan concerning quantum cryptosystem
experiments for absolute security against cryptanalysis.

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