David Honig wrote: >At 08:56 PM 8/30/02 -0700, AARG!Anonymous wrote: >>The problem is that you can't forcibly collapse the state vector into your >>wished-for eigenstate, the one where the plaintext recognizer returns a 1. >>Instead, it will collapse into a random state, associated with a random >>key, and it is overwhelmingly likely that this key is one for which the >>recognizer returns 0. > >I thought the whole point of quantum-computer design is to build >systems where you *do* impose your arbitrary constraints on the system.
Look again at those quantum texts. AARG! is absolutely correct. Quantum doesn't work like the original poster seemed to wish it would; state vectors collapse into a random state, not into that one magic needle-in-a-haystack state you wish it could find. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
