[liberationtech] About private networks (Was Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat)

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:53:36PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:03:06PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote:
> >
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography
> >
> > Doesn't really work. Essentially, this is expensive
> > snake oil.
> 
> so, it's been tried, eh? can you post a link?

QC brand of expensive snake oil has found a niche in
finance. It is of course neat basic research, like
quantum teleportation, and such, of potential
use to quantum computers (which by itself, so
far look remarkably useless as well).

Why it's nonsolving a nonproblem, see
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/quantum_cryptog_2.html

Google is your friend for further research.