Quantum Key Distribution: the bad idea that won't die...

silky michaelslists at gmail.com
Wed Apr 21 03:48:09 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
>
> Via /., I saw the following article on ever higher speed QKD:
>
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-04/19/super-secure-data-encryption-gets-faster.aspx
>
> Very interesting physics, but quite useless in the real world.

Useless now maybe, but it's preparing for a world where RSA is broken
(i.e. quantum computers) and it doesn't require quantum computers; so
it's quite practical, in that sense.


> I wonder why it is that, in spite of almost universal disinterest in the
> security community, quantum key distribution continues to be a subject
> of active technological development.
>
> Perry

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