[e-privacy] Fwd: [Quantum cryptography finally commercialized?]

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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:21:22 -0400
> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
> Subject: Quantum cryptography finally commercialized?
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> Quantum cryptography finally commercialized?
> Posted by Mirko Zorz - LogError
> Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 1:23 PM CET
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> Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released
> the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the
> much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically,
> encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable.
> 
> While MagiQ Technologies' product, Navajo, isn't itself a quantum device it
> uses one of the fundamental tenets of quantum theory: Heisenberg's
> Uncertainty Principle, to create a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network.
> Werner Heisenberg first published his theory in 1927, stating that the more
> precisely the position of is known, the less precisely the momentum is
> known. This succinct statement addresses the uncertain relationship between
> the position and the momentum (mass times velocity) of a subatomic
> particle, such as an electron, and has profound impact on the development
> of future information systems.
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