Practical Quantum Cryptography

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 28, 2002 @07:14AM from the next-year-it'll-be-in-wristwatches dept.

Alien54 writes: "Saw this on Eureka Alert: A commercially available system for quantum key distribution and cryptography has been released by a spin-off company from the University of Geneva. The system has been tested over distances up to 70km (from Geneva to Lausanne) through standard optical fiber cables and connects to PCs via USB ports. Transmission rates of about 60 bits per seconds were achieved, sufficient for key distribution. You can see the original abstract here, which also has a link for download of the paper in PDF, Postscript, and other formats."

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Next comes the mindset by thornist · 2002-03-28 07:27 · Score: 0, Troll

Great. As practical applications of quantum physics become widespread (outside of silicon engineering plants) maybe the mindset shift accompanies it will really take root.

Maybe writers like Frijof Capra, Danah Zohar and even to some extent Roger Penrose will become less hokey in the mainstream view.

You only have to look around the world that is a product of mechanistic thinking - the simplistic cause and effect rationality of Bush's tyrades, the lack of dialectic thinking in politics in general to see that this shift is ripe in the making.