Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection · HackerPapers discussions

Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection — mentioned by scythe

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:22:53 GMT

This story was posted to Hacker News in May: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661576 http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0305?utm_source=feedly Read the arXiv paper: it's quite short and not very technical. The BB84 protocol used is described in a lower comment by 'harshreality. It is secure against any purely classical attacker; Preskill and Shor give a (highly involved) proof of security here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0003004 However, the BB84 protocol used is susceptible in its original form to quantum man-in-the-middle attacks, eg…

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Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection — mentioned by akiselev

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:43:33 GMT

It's interesting to think about where the NSA will be going with this technologically too. If they're moving towards processing of not only internet data passing through US shores but data from drones, video cameras, microphones, and other sensors world wide, they would need a hell of a lot of processing power to deal with that data. The data center in Utah would be the tip of the iceberg. As a nod to fiction like Eureka and the revelations like Los Alamos testing quantum communication for years [1], it's interesting to think what else the NSA is working on for (inter)national surveillance.…

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Network-Centric Quantum Communications with Application to Critical Infrastructure Protection — mentioned by jimbosis

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:34:57 GMT

Here's the link to the researchers' paper on arXiv.org http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0305

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