Category Archives: Quantum Cryptography

Throwing cold water on the Quantum Internet

Posted on October 6, 2012 by chb

There has been a lot of loose talk lately about a coming “Quantum Internet”. I was asked about it recently by a journalist and gave him this curmudgeonly answer, hoping to redirect some of the naive enthusiasm: …First let me … Continue reading →

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Let Eve do the heavy lifting, while John and Won-Young keep her honest.

Posted on October 20, 2011 by chb

Photon detectors have turned out to be an Achilles’ heel for quantum key distribution (QKD), inadvertently opening the door of Bob’s lab to subtle side-channel attacks, most famously quantum hacking, in which a macroscopic light signal from Eve subverts Bob’s … Continue reading →

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