Zack Weinberg writes:
> I've seen claims that quantum key agreement lets both parties detect a
> man in the middle with no prior communication and no trusted third party.
Nope. The security of QKE relies on the parties both knowing a shared
secret key to authenticate messages. This begs the questi
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Natanael wrote:
>> Does anybody here take quantum crypto seriously? Just wondering. I do not
>> see any benefit over classical methods. If one trusts the entire link and
>> knows it's not MitM'd in advance, w
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 9/19/2012 2:17 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> I've seen claims that quantum key agreement lets both parties detect a
>> man in the middle with no prior communication and no trusted third
>> party. If that's true it would obviously be hu
On 9/19/2012 2:17 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I've seen claims that quantum key agreement lets both parties detect a
man in the middle with no prior communication and no trusted third
party. If that's true it would obviously be huge.
Whispering in someone's ear, or, equivalently, near field commu
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Natanael wrote:
> Does anybody here take quantum crypto seriously? Just wondering. I do not
> see any benefit over classical methods. If one trusts the entire link and
> knows it's not MitM'd in advance, what advantage if any does quantum key
> distribution have o
It can detect passive snooping, not full MITM.
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Den 18 sep 2012 18:17 skrev "Zack Weinberg" :
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Natanael wrote:
> > Does anybody here take quantum crypto seriously? Just wondering. I do not
> > see any benefit over classical methods. If one t
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Natanael wrote:
> Does anybody here take quantum crypto seriously? Just wondering. I do not
> see any benefit over classical methods. If one trusts the entire link and
> knows it's not MitM'd in advance, what advantage if any does quantum key
> distribution have ov
Does anybody here take quantum crypto seriously? Just wondering. I do not
see any benefit over classical methods. If one trusts the entire link and
knows it's not MitM'd in advance, what advantage if any does quantum key
distribution have over ordinary methods? And isn't it just as useless
otherwis
http://www.qcrypt.net/docs/extended-abstracts/qcrypt2012_submission_12.pdf
QCrypt, Singapore, 12 September 2012
Air to Ground Quantum Key Distribution
Sebastian Nauerth1, Florian Moll, Markus Rau1, Christian Fuchs,
Joachim Horwath and Harald Weinfurter1
The range of quantum key distribution (Q
