A previous article on the meeting at Bell labs that I attended. Notable:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the super-secret National Security Agency are backing U.S. quantum projects.
NSA spokesman Ken White declined to elaborate, “given the sensitivities about our work to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communica tions, and given our desire to preserve our nation’s unique advan tages in these pursuits.”
Ack. Quick, better shut down quant-ph!
Rod VanMeter had a very illuminating link to a message by a big honcho of PGP Corp, who thinks quantum cryptography is a waste of time and money (in my words, not his). Admittedly, he is biased, but still his argument that the best way to defeat the enemy is to go after the weakest link, personal passwords, sounds very convincing to me. I found his statement, that 2/3 of the population choose passwords related to dogs or relatives, bone chilling (mea culpa). I recommend to the NSA that for now, they spend the bulk of their pennies on developing a quantum computer rather on quantum cryptography.
Dave, you used to have a preview key in this blog. Could you please bring it back, please. I am a highly fallible human being, I need it badly. The quality of my posts would increase markedly if I could do the preview thing
Hm, where did the preview button go. Will try to fix.
I strongly agree with rrtucci.