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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 2005-05-02
Anonymous
It's certainly nice that quantum cryptography makes it impossible to eavesdrop on the communication. But what about man-in-the-middle attacks? If some attacker can 'cut the wire' and put a device in between the two open ends, which forwards traffic between both sides (while copying the data somewher...

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