At 03:37 PM 4/12/04 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
QC can only run over a dedicated fiber over a short run, where more
normal mechanisms can work fine over any sort of medium -- copper, the
PSTN, the internet, etc, and can operate without distance limitation.
Nice essay. I especially liked the
/. is running yet another story on quantum cryptography today, with
the usual breathless hype:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/133623
I'm especially unimpressed with the Does this spell the
end of the field of cryptography? comment.
For those who don't know much about what
