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Quantum Crypto in the Real World
bednarz writes "Swiss officials are using quantum cryptography technology to protect voting ballots cast in the Geneva region of Switzerland during parliamentary elections to be held Oct. 21, marking the first time this type of advanced encryption will be used for election protection purposes. "We would like to provide optimal security conditions for the work of counting the ballots," said Robert Hensler, the Geneva State Chancellor. "In this context, the value added by quantum cryptography concerns not so much protection from outside attempts to interfere as the ability to verify that the data have not been corrupted in transit between entry and storage.""
Nuff said :)
Each voter is voting for all candidates simultaneously until the vote is actually read.
Swiss officials are using quantum cryptography technology to protect voting ballots cast in the Geneva region of Switzerland
Bah, we hace somnething similar in the U.S. Diebold has been using quantum encryption technology on their voting systems for years. That is to say, attempting to examine the vote count, alters the count.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
How did the scientists get around the fact that they don't know who won until after the person takes office?
Nice of you to leave your signature there - good for making sure your posts get modded down in the future.
We let too many stupid people vote? Is that what you are saying?
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
But the biggest question of all...how many Parsecs does it take for this system to make the Kessel Run?
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
Vote for Schrödinger!
A cat in every box!
Prepositions are totally fine to end sentences with.
more importantly, where do they keep all the cats in between elections???