Re: Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

2002-06-08 Thread David Honig
At 05:55 PM 5/31/02 -0400, John S. Denker wrote: >the thermodynamics of electrical circuits, costing >next to nothing. A draft writeup can be found at: > http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/turbid/paper/turbid.htm > You write: "-- We check for common gross failures. We consider it unnecessary and infe

Re: Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

2002-05-31 Thread Hannes R. Boehm
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:57:46AM -0600, Kossmann, Bill wrote: > Anybody familiar with this product? Yes - a little. As far as I know, they use phase coding of weak pulses (meaning that a puls contains an average of less than a photon). The average number of photons per puls depends on the prob

Re: Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

2002-05-31 Thread John S. Denker
"Kossmann, Bill" asked: > > Anybody familiar with this product? > > A Swiss company has announced the commercial availability of what it says > are the first IT products which exploit quantum effects rather than > conventional physics to achieve their goals. (05/31/2002) > http://itworld.ca/rpb.

Re: Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

2002-05-31 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <2F1A38DC0413D311A7310090273AD527042023F8@dthrexch01>, "Kossmann, Bi ll" writes: >Anybody familiar with this product? > > >A Swiss company has announced the commercial availability of what it says >are the first IT products which exploit quantum effects rather than >conventional physi

Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

2002-05-31 Thread Kossmann, Bill
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