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- From: melody@grad00.math.ncsu.edu (Patrick Melody)
- Subject: Re: Quantum cryptography: a flawed premise?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct14.195919.997@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: NCSU Mathematics Dept.
- References: <1992Oct12.184051.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Oct13.061724.25758@netcom.com> <1992Oct13.142639.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:59:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct13.142639.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Oct13.061724.25758@netcom.com>, rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- >writes:
- >|
- >Why? How do you think Alice sends the photons to Bob in the first place?
- >Do you think they can only be propagated in a vacuum, with no mirrors,
- >lenses, or other objects in the way? If so, this is hardly a very useful
- >system.
- >
- >You should be able to transmit these photons through a fiber (which
- >contains them by total internal reflection) without losing the important
- >information. The fiber can be wrapped into a ring; you need an optical
- >switch to get it into the ring at the start, and out at the end, but
- >such things exist.
- >
- Fiber transmission is out, (at least currently), because fiber transmission
- involves the photon reflecting off the insides of the fiber many times
- during its trip, and each time it does this it could change its polarization.
- The Discover article mentioned this.
-
- .sigs .sigs, we don't need no stinking .sigs!
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