Re: [Dailydave] Quantum Key Distribution

2017-08-11 Thread Matt Tait
SFAICT, QKD is mostly a way for academic physics to seek grants from credulous donors. I suspect China's investment in it is probably just a function of their major investment into academic sciences and research beginning to pay off, rather than anything to do with an assessment of encryption o

Re: [Dailydave] Quantum Key Distribution

2017-08-17 Thread Matt Tait
> if I had to venture a guess as to why there seems to be growing interest in QKD now: quantum computers are close enough to being practical that governments want to move ... I think this is true, but it just highlights that the people funding QKD also don't understand it. Quantum computers are g