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Quantum crypto moves out of the lab
John Leyden, The Register 2005-04-28

Quantum cryptography - long the stuff of cyberpunk novels and hi-tech spy stories - is leaving the laboratory and making its way into commercial markets. A briefing session at the UK's Department of Trade and Industry on Wednesday featured demonstrations of working quantum key exchange systems by QinetiQ, Toshiba Cambridge and US start-up MagiQ.

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Quantum crypto moves out of the lab 2005-04-28
Anonymous
Has any computer security article written on quantum cryptography ever explained how this perfect secrecy is achieved?

We're still talking about a sender, a receiver, and digital data. Without an out-of-band communication (which would defeat the purpose anyway, right?), how is it impossible for ...

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