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Re: Commercial quantum crypto product - news article

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri May 31 17:33:26 2002

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Kossmann, Bill" <BKossmann@dthr.ab.ca>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:23:23 -0400

In message <2F1A38DC0413D311A7310090273AD527042023F8@dthrexch01>, "Kossmann, Bi
ll" writes:
>Anybody familiar with this product?
>
>
>A Swiss company has announced the commercial availability of what it says 
>are the first IT products which exploit quantum effects rather than 
>conventional physics to achieve their goals. (05/31/2002)
>http://itworld.ca/rpb.cfm?v=20021510001

A fascinating article.  It raises an interesting point:  how does one 
validate such a system?

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)



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