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A Working, Quantum-Encrypted Intranet

Posted by timothy on from the it's-the-new-tin-can-and-string dept.

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."

6 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. IT? by Matey-O · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a working quantum encrypted mumble mumble?

    I thought IT was a Segway? (a.k.a. Ginger, A.k.a. self balancing hype-machine)

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    "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
  2. Yess! by OverlordQ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Quantum Encrypted Pr0n Surfing!

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    Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
  3. . Quantum encryption? by Eudial · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    "What? That was a report when i sent i... -" No. No. No. No, It did not say "All work and no play makes Bob a dull boy." when i sent i-..." No. Yes sir. Yes. Yes. I know. Yes. No i don't need any money this month. Yes. Yes. No."

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    GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
  4. wwworld wore won almost over? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't bet your highly mortgaged .asp on that one?

    the daze of the greed/fear/ego based, glowbull warmongering corepirate nazi felon execrable may be drawing to it's whoreabull conclusion.

    lookout bullow.

    all is not lost?

    consult with/trust in yOUR ceators... decyphering our inconsistencies since/until forever. see you there?

  5. the author is a parrot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FTA: The photons are encoded by sending them out at different intervals: a long gap indicates one bit of information, and a shorter one a different bit.

    I'm not calling BS on the idea itself, because quantum cryptography is a proven (and oh so nifty) concept, but I honestly don't think the author of the article knows very much about quantum cryptography, or anything about digital communication. A long gap may indicate one bit of information, but if a shorter gap is the only other alternative (i.e. there are only two graduations of gap-length), it doesn't represent "a different bit" -- it represents NO BIT, or a binary 0.

    Funny how an unlucky choice of words can say so much about what you know!

  6. hacked by chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Steal underwear
    2) ???
    3) Post nonsense to slashdot
    [4) Profit]