RE: Hackers beware: quantum encryption is coming

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 21 2003 - 18:51:54 MDT

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    A good overview of Quantum Cryptography can be found at
    <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jford/crypto.html>. It covers:

            1. Introduction
            2. Standard Cryptography
            3. History of Quantum Cryptography
            4. Quantum Coding
            5. An Example Protocol
            6. Quantum Privacy Attacks
            7. References

    Sectopm 6 is the most important one for me. It shows how quantum
    cryptography is still vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attack. Such an
    attack could conceivably be used to insert a wiretap between quantum
    cryptographic communications points. 

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Harvey Newstrom, CISM, CISSP, IAM, IBMCP, GSEC
Certified InfoSec Manager, Certified IS Security Pro, NSA-certified
InfoSec Assessor, IBM-certified Security Consultant, SANS-cert GSEC
<HarveyNewstrom.com> <Newstaff.com>

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