I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing
that impressed me most was that the path need not be a
single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum
state across a switchable fiber junction. This means
you are no longer limited to a single pair of boxes talking to
each other.
If you haven't checked it out yet, you should. Really easy to set up (two
Windows
XP machines through a NAT on DSL, ping ~50 ms, preshared key, single port open;
right now).
Looking forward to see how C3-accelerated AES (OpenSSL next stable will support
it out of the box) will do, across
On 2005-01-20T12:16:34+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology
retraction).
How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write
pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current
research down to
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing
that impressed me most was that the path need not be a
single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum
state across a switchable fiber junction. This means
Very
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Eugen Leitl wrote:
If you haven't checked it out yet, you should. Really easy to set up (two
Windows
XP machines through a NAT on DSL, ping ~50 ms, preshared key, single port
open; right now).
Looking forward to see how C3-accelerated AES (OpenSSL next stable will
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing
that impressed me most was that the path need not be a
single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum
state across a switchable fiber
Well, I think you've been a little too harsh on Scientific American. In the
past a lot of the best articles were written by the pioneers in their
fields. In fact, it's where I believe Wittfield and Diffie wrote a great
piece on their work.
And don't expect anyone (not even a math major) to go
What do you mean? By a physical fiber switch? That's certainly possible,
though you'd need a very good condition switch to be able to do it. I'd bet
if that switch switched a lot, the QCrypto channel would eventually be
unusable.
If you're talking about a WDM element or passive splitter or
