Money Laundering for the Nazis by President Bush's family
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Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success
http://istresults.cordis.lu/popup.cfm?section=newstpl=articleID=70263AutoPrint=True IST Results Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success Using randomly generated numbers to ensure the security of encryption applications seems counter-intuitive but is a fundamental part of quantum cryptography. Pioneering the approach is an award-winning Swiss start-up company, id Quantique, that launched the world's first commercial quantum random number generator and quantum cryptography system. In fact, numerous applications require random numbers. Besides potential quantum cryptographic applications, such as bank transfers and e-voting, further examples include scientific calculations and games involving chance such as national lotteries. Initially though, id Quantique's products mainly target demand from customers of high security encryption systems such as financial, government and military institutions. id Quantique was founded in October 2001 as a spin-off from the University of Geneva by four researchers from the University's Applied Physics Department - Grégoire Ribordy, Olivier Guinnard, Nicolas Gisin and Hugo Zbinden. December 2003 marked a milestone in the company's evolution: the entrepreneurs successfully raised 1 million euros from the Luxemburg-based i2i venture capital fund in a first round of funding and they concluded a worldwide exclusivity agreement with the University of Geneva regarding two important quantum cryptography patents. Over a short period of time, the fledgling company and its founders have won several prestigious prizes. The company was a recipient of the European Innovation Awards from the Wall Street Journal Europe in 2001; Olivier Guinnard and Grégoire Ribordy were winners of the de Vigier's prize for Swiss entrepreneurs in 2002; and this year the company was a winner of the annual Swiss Technology Award. id Quantique supplies three products. Firstly, a physical random number generator, Quantis, which relies on an elementary quantum optical process - namely the perfectly random reflection or transmission of a photon, or light particle, on a semi-transparent mirror - in order to produce binary random numbers. Next, a quantum key distribution (QKD) system that enables cryptographic keys, which are required for encrypting and decrypting information, to be securely transmitted over standard optical fibres between two parties. Finally, a Single Photon Detection Module (SPDM), id 200, which is a photon counter used in quantum cryptography and other quantum optical applications. In March 2004, id Quantique and the University of Geneva launched the first ever website offering perfectly random numbers created by the Quantis generator. Grégoire Ribordy, id Quantique's CEO, remarks, We launched the www.randomnumbers.info website to promote our new quantum random number generator and to provide a service to the scientific community. In the long term, we would like it to become the reference point for random numbers. Despite the demand for perfectly random numbers, their generation remains a difficult task. Conventional computers use a rule to produce pseudo-random numbers, which can sometimes introduce unwanted bias. Quantum physics is the only physical theory predicting that the outcome of certain phenomena is random, emphasises Nicolas Gisin, Professor at the University of Geneva. It is thus a natural choice to use it to generate true random numbers. id Quantique is a partner in the IST project SECOQC which began in April 2004 under the Sixth Framework Programme. The project is focused on evaluating quantum cryptography technology as well as developing standard specifications for secure global digital communication systems. Recently, the project consortium performed the world's first ever bank transfer using quantum cryptography by sending ¤3000 over a 1.45 km link between Vienna City Hall and the headquarters of Bank-Austria Creditanstalt. The SECOQC project makes it possible for id Quantique's engineers to interact with some of the best groups worldwide in the field of quantum cryptography, observes Ribordy. And because of the multidisciplinary nature of this project, it is an extremely enriching platform to exchange ideas and find new ways to solve problems. More recently, id Quantique has teamed up with the Deckpoint, a Swiss Internet Service Provider, to develop and implement the world's first data archiving network secured using quantum cryptography. The official opening of the new archiving network took place on 29 September 2004 in the presence of Carlo Lamprecht, the Minister of Economy, Labour and Foreign Affairs of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. Data stored on a farm of 30 servers at Deckpoint Housing Centre, in the middle of Geneva, was backed up to servers located at the Cern Internet Exchange Point, in the city suburbs some 10 kms away. This world premiere is an excellent illustration of the of the potential of this technology says Ribordy.
RE: Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success
Well, as a research toy QC seems gee-wiz super cool. I'm still not super-impressed by the current set of applications. In particular, consider that random number generator. Although QM does indeed predict that experimental outcomes will be 'random', they are random within the weightings imposed by the measuring apparatus. In a sense, this is the perfect analog to the notion that, Your crypto algorithm may be unbreakable, but your hard/software ain't. Consider...I set up my random number generator to spit out a 1 every time a photon passes through a half-silvered mirror, and a 0 every time it reflects. Over time the silvering on the mirror is going to degrade, or perhaps it's already not perfect but you need a large number of 'measurements' and/or analysis to begin to see it. In any event, your probabilities are going to shift over time, yielding an imperfect distribution of 0s/1s. Sure, it's still random, but the probability density function is no longer useful for many applications. Right now I can't see why this would be any more desirable than, for instance, grabbing the outcome of some distinctly nonlinear process, or perhaps many other approaches to RNG. The only thing this does is allow users/buyers to think their system is now free of any deep technical issues that may make classical systems insecure. -TD From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:09:03 -0400 http://istresults.cordis.lu/popup.cfm?section=newstpl=articleID=70263AutoPrint=True IST Results Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success Using randomly generated numbers to ensure the security of encryption applications seems counter-intuitive but is a fundamental part of quantum cryptography. Pioneering the approach is an award-winning Swiss start-up company, id Quantique, that launched the world's first commercial quantum random number generator and quantum cryptography system. In fact, numerous applications require random numbers. Besides potential quantum cryptographic applications, such as bank transfers and e-voting, further examples include scientific calculations and games involving chance such as national lotteries. Initially though, id Quantique's products mainly target demand from customers of high security encryption systems such as financial, government and military institutions. id Quantique was founded in October 2001 as a spin-off from the University of Geneva by four researchers from the University's Applied Physics Department - Grigoire Ribordy, Olivier Guinnard, Nicolas Gisin and Hugo Zbinden. December 2003 marked a milestone in the company's evolution: the entrepreneurs successfully raised 1 million euros from the Luxemburg-based i2i venture capital fund in a first round of funding and they concluded a worldwide exclusivity agreement with the University of Geneva regarding two important quantum cryptography patents. Over a short period of time, the fledgling company and its founders have won several prestigious prizes. The company was a recipient of the European Innovation Awards from the Wall Street Journal Europe in 2001; Olivier Guinnard and Grigoire Ribordy were winners of the de Vigier's prize for Swiss entrepreneurs in 2002; and this year the company was a winner of the annual Swiss Technology Award. id Quantique supplies three products. Firstly, a physical random number generator, Quantis, which relies on an elementary quantum optical process - namely the perfectly random reflection or transmission of a photon, or light particle, on a semi-transparent mirror - in order to produce binary random numbers. Next, a quantum key distribution (QKD) system that enables cryptographic keys, which are required for encrypting and decrypting information, to be securely transmitted over standard optical fibres between two parties. Finally, a Single Photon Detection Module (SPDM), id 200, which is a photon counter used in quantum cryptography and other quantum optical applications. In March 2004, id Quantique and the University of Geneva launched the first ever website offering perfectly random numbers created by the Quantis generator. Grigoire Ribordy, id Quantique's CEO, remarks, We launched the www.randomnumbers.info website to promote our new quantum random number generator and to provide a service to the scientific community. In the long term, we would like it to become the reference point for random numbers. Despite the demand for perfectly random numbers, their generation remains a difficult task. Conventional computers use a rule to produce pseudo-random numbers, which can sometimes introduce unwanted bias. Quantum physics is the only physical theory predicting that the outcome of certain phenomena is random, emphasises Nicolas Gisin, Professor at the University of Geneva. It is thus a natural choice to use it to generate true random numbers. id Quantique is a
RE: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
OK, I'll bite. Or rather... Well, your initial postulate was stated in such a way as to be fairly unrefutable, the key word being float. Only companies, etc...provide that by requiring that the transacted funds flow through their coffers for a moment, where they extract their discount revenue. At this stage of the game, nobody when their head screwed on tight would argue that Internet-based businesses don't represent an increase in Risk (whether that increase will eventually make float-based business models impossible is an entirely different matter). Interestingly, the Visa organization recently launched a Purchasing Card platform which merely facilitates EFTs (a step towards your oft-mentioned Geodesic Society?)...there's a fixed and small discount revenue touch that's independent of the size of the transaction (and they can afford to do this because there's no float, ergo no risk). In this case, Visa is providing value added information systems for the transactions, but in a sense they're allowing their member banks to more or less completely step out of the transaction if they wish. Now of course, Paragraph 2 is only related to Paragraph 1 by the fact that I wrote both of them in one post. To my knowledge, Visa's new PCard platform has nothing to do with Internet-based risk PER SE, but in the long run I'll doubt we'll lable this a coincidence. -TD From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:14:08 -0400 Okay. So I'm coming to the conclusion that book-entry settlement, with its absolute requirement for both identity and float between transactions, is becoming more and more *un*-safe to use as internet ubiquity increases. Anyone want to pick up the other side of this and tell me why not? No bugbears or horsemen need apply... Cheers, RAH --- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6175738/print/1/displaymode/1098/ MSNBC.com Fake companies, real money Elaborate con wrings cash out of stolen credit cards By Bob Sullivan Technology correspondent MSNBC Updated: 7:15 p.m. ET Oct. 7, 2004 T-Data, a small New-York based software company, doesn't take credit cards -- never has in its 20-year history. But a few weeks ago, owner Jeff Duhl found himself looking over $15,000 worth of credit card charges seemingly accepted by his store. A quick investigation revealed most of the charges had been made using stolen credit cards. Slowly, he caught on: Someone had stolen a batch of credit card accounts, then stolen his company's name, set up an imposter version of T-Data, and rung up thousands of dollars worth of fake purchases. The profits were then desposited into checking accounts controlled by the imposters. It is ingenious, said Dan Clements, who operates merchant advocacy site CardCops.com. Duhl wasn't the only victim of this new brand of corporate identity theft: At least 50 other firms apparently also had their identities stolen in the scheme. For credit card thieves doing their best to wring money out of a stash of stolen accounts, it seems like the perfect scam. How to profit from stolen credit cards While millions of credit card account numbers are stolen every year -- 60 million last year, and perhaps 120 million this year, according to one estimate -- turning them into cash can be tricky. Merchandise ordered with the card must be delivered somewhere, which is risky. Massive cash withdrawals are quickly spotted by credit card associations. The scheme Duhl's firm was caught up in is a heady, complex alternative: First, credit card thieves find a legitimate company unlikely to already be accepting credit card transactions. They then impersonate that company and set up accounts with merchant processing providers, whose role it is to transfer funds between credit card companies and merchants. Using stolen credit cards, the thieves then start sending small payments, usually $498 or $598 at a time, to the fraudulent merchant accounts. The credit card companies send funds to the processors and they in turn send the funds off to bank accounts controlled by the criminals. They are flying under the radar on each transaction unless someone does a whole lot of work, Duhl said. A key part of the scheme: The thieves went to the trouble of registering the domain www.T-datasoftware.com, then set up a fake Web site. The site looked like a believable business to the merchant processing providers, who gave the thieves their accounts. Duhl's imposters were able to set up accounts at seven different payment processing firms. When Duhl investigated, he discovered some 50 other Web sites -- most mere imitations of one another -- all sitting on the same computer server. They got away with $15,000 (in charges) at my company, Duhl said. Multiply that by the number of sites, the number of companies, these folks could be getting away with millions of dollars, he said. It's not
