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Sunday, April 29, 2007
Apparently quantum cryptography has been hacked using a "quantum-mechanical wiretap", and the story about it has great sections like this:
"To listen in, the team used a quantum-mechanical principle known as entanglement, which can link together two different traits of a particle. Using an optical setup, the team was able to entangle the transmitted photon's polarization with its momentum. The eavesdropper could then measure the momentum in order to get information about the polarization, without affecting the original polarization.
Man, I love science.
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