Ultrasecure Quantum Communications Over Thin Air

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 2, 2002 @10:50PM from the and-that-is-really-thin-air dept.

SlashDotIDOne writes "Well, given a hundred years at university and a few extra titles to my name, I'd be comfortable trying to summarize the article so don't take what I say at face value. Apparently British and German researchers have found a way to use quantum crypto through the air, thus allowing it to be used to communicate with satellites, etc. A very secure form since you know whether a message was intercepted, rather hard to tamper with ;). Courtesy India times and Google's new news service."

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Philip K Dick by pubjames · 2002-10-02 23:22 · Score: 5, Funny

I remember reading once that Philip K Dick (writer of Blade Runner, Minority Report) went mad at the end of his life, one of the reasons being that he was convinced that there were zillions of alien transmissions going through the air which were screwing with his mind.

Perhaps he was right. Perhaps taking lots of hard drugs allows you to tune in to alien quantum communications. Sounds like some experimenting needs to be done...