Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-30 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 29/06/2020 20:09, jim bell wrote: "/Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers/" Secure quantum communication is very tricky, and afaik the Chinese didn't do that, they just did some entangled photon measuring. First, the non-cloning

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread Bill Stewart
On 6/29/2020 6:57 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 23:54:43 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography. https://cointelegraph.com/news/experts-split-on-practical-implications-of-quantum-cryptography bullshit

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread таракан
> On Monday, June 29, 2020, 09:50:46 AM PDT, Karl wrote: >>Jim put a lot of energy here into replying to a joke. > > I'm not aware that: > > "Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over > 1,000 kilometers" > >>"Wow!" > >>"How can they do that?" > > is a joke. > >

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread jim bell
On Monday, June 29, 2020, 09:50:46 AM PDT, Karl wrote: >Jim put a lot of energy here into replying to a joke. I'm not aware that: "Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers" >"Wow!" >"How can they do that?" is a joke.  Although, in a way

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread Karl
Jim put a lot of energy here into replying to a joke. Jim appears to be an electronics supergenius. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 4:48 AM jim bell wrote: > Albert Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance". He hated the > concept of quantum mechanics, saying "God does not play dice with the >

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread jim bell
Albert Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance".  He hated the concept of quantum mechanics, saying "God does not play dice with the Universe".  Unfortunately, Einstein was quite wrong.   The idea is that pairs of photons can be generated and can go virtually any distance, and then a

Re: Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum Cryptography

2020-06-29 Thread таракан
I quote the main title of the article: "Scientists in China managed to exchange a crypto key at a distance of over 1,000 kilometers" Wow! How can they do that? On Monday, 29 June 2020 г., 2:54, jim bell wrote: > Cointelegraph: Experts Split on Practical Implications of Quantum >