quantum hype

Matt Crawford crawdad at fnal.gov
Fri Sep 19 12:07:05 EDT 2003


I'm always stuck on that little step where Alice tells Bob what basis 
she used for each photon sent.  Tells him how?  They need integrity 
protection and endpoint authentication for N bits of basis.  Is the 
quantum trick converting those N bits to N/2 privacy-protected bits 
really as exciting as it's made out to be?


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