Re: [cryptography] Well, that's depressing. Now what?

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Noon Silk wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
>> what you *can* say is that someone *selling*
>> *any* demonstratably-insecure crypto device as a secure one, is snake
>> oil. So, that is to say, you can only claim snake-oil in reference to
>> a vendor and a device, not a field of research.
>
> Again, we disagree. There are many fields of research that market themselves 
> as useful when compared to other fields, and QKD is one of those.
QKD is doing better then some, and worst than others: http://www.xkcd.com/808/.
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