Quantum Physics - not just a nice idea..

[nath]

They've actually made something useful out of it, pretty amazing if you ask me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3543495.stm

 

[Athan]

Oh yuss.

Note that the current device is really just for secure exchange of keys, to then do 'normal' encyption with, so still need to be sure of security in other ways. And of course someone COULD still possibly manage to just DoS you by doing something to interfere and cause you to keep throwing away the data as compromised.

Still, very cool. Cooler would be a teleport effect for FTL .

-Ath

 

[Cyradix]

hehe, good observation. Everytime you try to "read" the key they have to resend another key