Quantum key distribution in superposition of "insecure" and "unneeded"
Sep 5th, 2010
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It’s apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature Photonics titled “Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination.” I never thought I would live to see the word “hacking” used in its proper context in a physics paper. But enough about physics lingo. What about the quantum encryption hacks alluded to by the title? What we have is another paper demonstrating that the weak point of quantum encryption systems is the point where classical meets quantum.
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