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Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the photon-data-torpedo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ITO is running a story on NIST's latest quantum encryption key generation. From the article: 'Raw code for "unbreakable" quantum encryption has been generated at record speed over optical fiber at NIST. The work is a step toward using conventional high-speed networks such as broadband Internet and local-area networks to transmit ultra-secure video for applications such as surveillance.'"

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  1. Great, no more supervision by JPribe · · Score: 4, Funny
    Compressed video has been encrypted, transmitted and decrypted at a rate of 30 frames per second, sufficient for smooth streaming images, in Web-quality resolution, 320 by 240 pixels per frame.
    Neat, now those cameras around the country can't get watched by anyone with a net connection anymore. What will I do with my saturday nights?
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    1. Re:Great, no more supervision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      try to get laid?

    2. Re:Great, no more supervision by JPribe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Been there, done that, got the bugs to prove it ;)

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  2. Hold on just a sec... by StevenHenderson · · Score: 5, Funny
    'Raw code for "unbreakable" quantum encryption has been generated...

    Let's see what DVD Jon has to say about this first...

  3. Roti by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    When quantum cryptography is outlawed, both outlaws and law-abiding citizens will simultaneously have and lack quantum cryptography!

    This message encrypted with rotsqrt(-1).

  4. Re:I can't pretend to remotely understand, but... by hoggoth · · Score: 2, Funny

    > how is the key shared with the end terminal?

    Come on you Einsteinian caveman! Clearly the sending terminal is quantumly entangled with the receiving terminal, thus providing the key via spooky-action-at-a-distance(tm).

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  5. You all laughed when... by Yamaha2000usyahoo.co · · Score: 1, Funny

    I filed a patent for my tin foil suit back in 1986.

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