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A Working, Quantum-Encrypted Intranet
192939495969798999 writes "This article points out how BBN, developers of ARPANET, have actually created a quantum-encrypted intranet that serves pages to a small group of research scientists. I firmly believe this is as significant as the very first internet transmission some years back. If the technology is working and 100% secure, how long until it makes its way at least into government websites? This might be the end of the hacked by Chinese index pages!"
Reader Kent adds "A New York based company, MagiQ
Technologies, has begun selling units for
commercial use while a group in Europe recently made the first quantum encrypted
bank transaction in Vienna, Austria - April 2004. But the Boston network -
though limited to three locations - is believed to be the first Internet-integrated
system
that runs
continuously
between multiple distant locations."
BAH! , Until they have me beaming back and forth from my bed to my computer I'm not giving quantum computing a dime.
Tonight I'm adding "Quantum Network Engineer" to my resume...
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That would require the slashdot editorial staff to actually a) read the article they're posting about, and b) understand said article.
Makes quantum networking look easy, no?
...from pigeon-based indexing to using cats?
So that's what Al Gore has been up to!
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
Where do I get this nothing stuff?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Hmm...Beyond the index page, Natalie Portman exists in a superposition of having and not having hot grits in her pants...until you click "ENTER"...
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Just don't look inside.
"Make something idiot-proof and they'll build a better idiot."
You go BBN. You survived that monstrosity.
Leave the gun, take the cannolis.
a step down from that is just making sure your office staff doesn't like chocolate (but can you really trust anyone who doesn't like chocolate?)
Now I understand! when word was randomly messing up my settings and files, it was because I was viewing them.
:-)
so it WAS a feature, not a bug.
who d'have thunk that MS had such advanced SECURITY tech...
Considering that a secure OS is the purported "holy grail" for MS, how do you suppose they will utilize this technology? Let's think about how they integrated the TCP/IP and the Internet. Initially, they "had a better idea" in the forms of NetBEUI and the MSN service (pre-Internet proprietary service). Eventually they "got religion" and started using TCP/IP (albeit a little funky) and real Internet service instead of prepackaged proprietary content. So... with that history, can we expect MS to say, "pah! Quantum Encryption? We have something better". They roll out their "anti-matter encryption with 1 gigqbit strength" and then they start having problems with crackers starting DoE (denial of existence) attacks on remote computers by causing anti-matter overloads. Several hundred thousand deaths later, they "innovate" their own approach to quantum encryption and "save the day". Of course after that all of reality melts away in a wash of windows logos when a quantum worm gets released and all those entangled quanta fizzle apart the space time continuum. So... did MS create the big bang meta-retroactively? ;P
Un-news
Those /. admins are getting lazy. They didn't even bother to decrypt the name of the person who added the article (192939495969798999) :P
that's fine, 100% chance is finite enough for me
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I sounds like a parallel network is required just for transmission of the keys. I'm sure that will be happening in short order.
Bob was sent to the store by Alice for polarized one-time pads but as usual he came back with the wrong filter. She should have just sent Eve to begin with.
So here. Decrypt this hex:
1A 3F 23 31 37 F3 18 0B 12 66 20 DB 3D 28 2D 15 5E 80 1B 3F 12 82 FE 14 98 1D E6 23 D2 9F 88 26 D6 2A 38 77 23 90 E8 AB 23 A7 28 87 10 9E C3 B0 38 39
if no one can decrypt it, then I think I can publish it and
4) Profit
PETA members were ouraged by the mind boggling number of cats that were killed to perfect this project. PETA members were not soothed by the scientists claims that, theoretically, there are an infinite number of realities in which the cats did not die.
I'd say "I'll believe it when I see it," but by seeing the quantum crytography in action, I'd be observing it, and, well...
Wanted: Quantum Mechanic, must bring own tools.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.