Quantum Cryptography Ready For Wide Adoption?

An anonymous reader points us to an interview with the founder of quantum cryptography pioneer MagiQ Technologies. From the article: "Q: When do you think we'll see service providers offer quantum cryptography services to their end-customers? A: This will happen within one year and we'll see fairly wide adoption within the next three years. We are working with big carriers such as Verizon and AT&T as well as some companies that own fiber networks. The goal is to embed quantum cryptography into the technology infrastructure so it becomes totally transparent to the end-user..." The cost of a pair of MagiQ boxes to implement point-to-point encryption on a 120-km link is $100,000 plus service.

Short answer

[RobTFirefly]

Quantum Cryptography Ready For Wide Adoption?

Yes and/or no.

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[Diglielo]

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More Than One Way To Do It Again

[Doc Ruby]

Perl already does QM programming [cpan.org]. Maybe the entanglement timemachine experiment in Spring 2008 will have been successful, and Perl hackers willam haven been sending code through the loop back to the 2002 CPAN?

Re:SNAKE OIL!

[Anonymous Coward]

What happens if you splice the line and put a repeater in that also reads the data passing through it?

I don't know, let's ask the NSA: bomb kill president dirty bomb panties assassination murder terrorist nukular boom boom anthrax