On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Perry E. Metzger <pe...@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 -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
