[extropy-chat] Encryption revolution

[Mike Lorrey]

Well, the system is merely a means of key transmission that is not
crackable, in that it is able to easily detect interception and take
countermeasures. It says nothing about the security of the cryptosystem
that generates the keys themselves. As far as I am aware, the
cryptosystem is NOT a quantum computer based system.

--- Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:
> Does anyone seriously think it is unbreakable?  I believe it's more
> of a matter of not yet finding a way to break it.
> 
> Dan
>   From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 
>   To: wta-talk ; hit ; extropy-chat 
>   Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:48 AM
>   Subject: [extropy-chat] Encryption revolution
> 
> 
>   From 2theadvocate.com: After 20 years of research, an encryption
> process is emerging that is considered unbreakable because it employs
> the mind-blowing laws of quantum physics. In November, a small
> startup called MagiQ Technologies Inc. began selling what appears to
> be the first commercially available system that uses individual
> photons to transfer the numeric keys that are widely used to encode
> and read secret documents. 
>   MagiQ (pronounced "magic," with the "Q" for "quantum") expects this
> will appeal to banks, insurers, government agencies, pharmaceutical
> companies and other organizations that transmit sensitive
> information. "We think this is going to have a huge, positive impact
> on the world," said Bob Gelfond, MagiQ's founder and chief executive.
> Encryption schemes commonly used now are considered safe, though they
> theoretically could be broken someday. But even before that day
> arrives, Gelfond believes quantum encryption is superior in one
> important way. In some super-high-security settings, people sharing
> passwords and other information must have the same key, a massive
> string of digits used to encode data. Sometimes the keys will be
> transferred by imperfect means -- via courier or special software.
> They are not changed very often and can be susceptible to
> interception. 
>   Quantum encryption employs one of the defining discoveries of
> physics: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says subatomic
> particles exist in multiple possible states at once, however hard as
> that may be to imagine, until something interacts with them.
> 
> 
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