On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:53:36PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:03:06PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote: > > > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography > > > > Doesn't really work. Essentially, this is expensive > > snake oil. > > so, it's been tried, eh? can you post a link?
QC brand of expensive snake oil has found a niche in finance. It is of course neat basic research, like quantum teleportation, and such, of potential use to quantum computers (which by itself, so far look remarkably useless as well). Why it's nonsolving a nonproblem, see http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/quantum_cryptog_2.html Google is your friend for further research. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
