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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: Quantum cryptography: a flawed premise?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.061724.25758@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Oct12.184051.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:17:24 GMT
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- leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
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- : The attack against the *cryptosystem*, as opposed to the attack against QM,
- : goes like this: The eavesdropper clones the photons and SAVES them - he
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- How does he do this? I know of no way to "save" a photon. Somehow mirrors
- would be involved and I think interaction with a mirror would alter the
- polarization state.
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- Bob
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