Slashcrap: Quatum security!

Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Tim.
Categories: General/Misc..

Slashcrap article just came up: Scientist Make Quantum Encryption Breakthrough

I don’t even think I have to say anything. The description blurb for this story takes all the fun out of it. It’s like they were trying to be dumb.

Ok, quick primer for slashcrappians who don’t understand cryptography: It’s a solved problem. While individual protocols may fall to specific weak points, the problem of secure communication has been solved. Unless integer factorization turns out to be in BQP and we get quantum computers, RSA will not be broken.

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