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Re: Quantum Crytography to be used for Swiss elections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Mon Oct 22 20:20:36 2007
In-Reply-To: <20071022190731.439b5959@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>,
Cryptography Crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:21:05 -0700
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
On Oct 22, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:49:40 -0700
> Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Ah, there are some trustworthy photons. Oops, we can trust them,
>>> but we don't know if they are relevant. Ah, there's a relevant
>>> photon....
>>
>> And we know they are trustworthy photons because they have
>> certificates signed by an accredited third-party boson.
>>
> Boson or bogon?
Boson. Bosons are force-carrier particles, as opposed to fermions.
Photons are themselves bosons, but there are other bosons that carry
other forces. There's the Higgs boson, W and Z bosons, and so on.
Gluons, the particles that hold atomic nuclei together are also bosons.
Bogons are, technically, bosons as they are the particle that carries
a quantum unit of bogosity. However, you yourself have criticized
people who discuss the role of bogosity in quantum cryptography [sic]
(I prefer the term "quantum secrecy"), and therefore I will say no
more about bogons and QC.
Jon
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