Re: Quantum crypto, from BBC

2003-06-10 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:44 PM 06/07/2003 -0400, John S. Denker wrote: On 06/07/2003 08:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I haven't seen this discussed here yet. I hadn't seen this particular implementation of it discussed here before your posting, but as John points out, the topic has been discussed. It's somewhat cool,

Re: Quantum crypto, from BBC

2003-06-07 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Is there something to this? Quantum Cryptography is a really expensive way to provide link encryption that is perhaps marginally better in some theoretical sense to simply using, say, AES link encryption boxes a

Re: Quantum crypto, from BBC

2003-06-07 Thread Dave Howe
Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Is there something to this? For limited applications, yes QC in the form usually found in recent tests is actually quite simple. The sender generates some good random binary data (from an unknown source, doesn't really matter) and

Re: Quantum crypto, from BBC

2003-06-07 Thread John S. Denker
On 06/07/2003 08:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I haven't seen this discussed here yet. It's been discussed here some, and discussed elsewhere plenty. I get 19,000 hits from http://www.google.com/search?q=quantum+cryptography+product+OR+products > Is there something to this? It depends on your d

Quantum crypto, from BBC

2003-06-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Is there something to this? (Forwarded from Dave Farber's IP list, forwards elided) Dave Some IPer's may not yet have seen how close BBC says quantum cryptography may be. Bob * Quantum leap for secret codes * British scientists are close to creating a sy