At 6:38 PM -0400 9/18/03, John S. Denker wrote:
Yes, Mallory can DoS the setup by reading (and thereby
trashing) every bit. But Mallory can DoS the setup by
chopping out a piece of the cable. The two are equally
effective and equally detectable. Chopping is cheaper and
easier.
Other
There are lots of types of QC. I'll just mention two.
In classic QC Alice generates polarised photons at randomly chosen either
+ or x polarisations. Bob measures the received photons using a randomly
chosen polarisation, and tells Alice whether the measurement polarisation he
chose was + or x,
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:37:21PM +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
[cloning photons]
There is also another less noisy cloning technique which has recently been
done in laboratories, though it doubles the photon's wavelength, which would
be noticeable,
To get rid of the wavelength change it
Has anyone reviewed Simon Singh's CD version
of The Code Book ?
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http://www.simonsingh.net/The_CDROM.html
After 12 months of intense development, the interactive
CD-ROM version of The Code Book is now available. I might
be biased, but I think that it