RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
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.

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Justin
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

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
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

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
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

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
to write intelligently on quantum entanglement, EPR and Aharnov-Bohm, and it's been done by Sci-Am, Penrose, Kaku and plenty of others. -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:35 + On 2005-01-20T12

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
of integration and how well current coding schemes work, I'd guess this will remain a niche unless there's a major breakthrough in factoring. -TD From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Scientific American on Quantum