[Cryptography] QM giveth, QM taketh away

Patrick Chkoreff pc at fexl.com
Fri Feb 12 10:22:30 EST 2021


Henry Baker wrote on 2/11/21 11:05 AM:
...
> 2. Quantum key distribution supposedly enables guaranteed
> private distribution of OTP keys.

I would think that if you can send a one-time-pad securely via QM, you
might as well just send the message itself securely via QM, and not
bother XORing it with a key.  You can only use the one-time-pad once anyway.


-- Patrick


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