From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [mailto:sentience@pobox.com]
> (As modified to take into account the "nanotech -> quantum
> computing ->
> no more RSA" chain. Open (?) question: Using quantum
> computing, is it
> possible to create a public-key encryption method immune to
> quantum decryption?)
The Quantum Computation and Cryptography Group at Los Alamos is working on
this and has some limited data available. http://qso.lanl.gov/qc/
Also, last spring there was a good article on the topic in Science. See
below:
QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY:
Privacy in a Quantum World
Charles H. Bennett and Peter W. Shor
Science 1999 April 30; 284: 747-748.
For those who have access to Science Online, the URL is
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5415/747?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&
hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=quantum+cryptography&searchid=QID_NOT_SE
T&FIRSTINDEX=>
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