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Re: Quantum cryptography finally commercialized?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wagner)
Wed Sep 17 10:28:10 2003
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From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:36:57 +0000 (UTC)
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R. A. Hettinga wrote:
><http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=3583>
>
>Quantum cryptography finally commercialized?
>Posted by Mirko Zorz - LogError
>Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 1:23 PM CET
For the onlookers, this article is misinformed and should
not be relied upon for evaluating quantum cryptography.
The rest of the article contains statements like the following:
>MagiQ's Navajo creates encryption keys that change up to 1,000 times a
>second to prevent eavesdroppers from deciphering the transmitted data
>packets. [...] While AES is very secure, the combination of AES and
>Navajo is theoretically absolutely secure: unbreakable.
The "unbreakable" claim is unfounded.
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