quantum hype
martin f krafft
madduck at madduck.net
Sat Sep 13 17:40:32 EDT 2003
also sprach David Wagner <daw at mozart.cs.berkeley.edu> [2003.09.13.2306 +0200]:
> You're absolutely right. Quantum cryptography *assumes* that you
> have an authentic, untamperable channel between sender and
> receiver. The standard quantum key-exchange protocols are only
> applicable when there is some other mechanism guaranteeing that
> the guy at the other end of the fibre optic cable is the guy you
> wanted to talk to, and that noone else can splice into the middle
> of the cable and mount a MITM attack.
Uh, so if I have a channel of that sort, why don't I send cleartext?
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