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.""

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Re:In other words...

[Spy der Mann]

We let too many stupid people vote? Is that what you are saying?

Unfortunately, it's true. Remember how many votes Bush got in 2004? :'(

"Quantum" whatever.

[RightSaidFred99]

It's a bunch of god damn gobbledy gook. They think if they call it "quantum" something it sounds high tech and futuristic. This technology isn't quantum anything, any more than any process that uses light or electricity is "quantum" something.

It's a bunch of shit, and it will never come to anything. Repeat after me: Quantum (x) is, for any value of x, just nerd porn and will never provide super-fast or super-secure _anything_ in the real workd.