"unbreakable" quantum crypto cracked by a laser

Steven M. Bellovin smb at cs.columbia.edu
Fri Oct 3 14:46:19 EDT 2008


http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14866-laser-cracks-unbreakable-quantum-communications.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Not surprisingly, it's attacking the implementation, not the physics --
but of course we use implementations to communicate, rather than
theories.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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