Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/0358215 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-01-20 06:35:00 from the just-try-and-break-it dept. [1]prostoalex writes Scientific American claims that [2]advances

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-20T12:16:34+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current research down to

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/0358215 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-01-20 06:35:00 from

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing that impressed me most was that the path need not be a single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum state across a switchable fiber junction. This means Very

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing that impressed me most was that the path need not be a single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum state across a switchable fiber

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
to write intelligently on quantum entanglement, EPR and Aharnov-Bohm, and it's been done by Sci-Am, Penrose, Kaku and plenty of others. -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:35 + On 2005-01-20T12

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
, January 20, 2005 6:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/0358215 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/0358215 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-01-20 06:35:00 from

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Justin
On 2005-01-20T12:16:34+0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). How could they possibly get clue? Scientists don't want to write pop-sci articles for a living. It's impossible to condense most current research down to

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing that impressed me most was that the path need not be a single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum state across a switchable fiber junction. This means Very

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:47:38AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I've actually seen these devices in operation. The thing that impressed me most was that the path need not be a single fiber from end to end - you can maintain quantum state across a switchable fiber

Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
to write intelligently on quantum entanglement, EPR and Aharnov-Bohm, and it's been done by Sci-Am, Penrose, Kaku and plenty of others. -TD From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:23:35 + On 2005-01-20T12

RE: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

2005-01-20 Thread Tyler Durden
, January 20, 2005 6:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption Scientific American has little clue, as usual (see their nanotechnology retraction). Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/20/0358215 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005