Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Beamsplitter Attack

I attended a talk yesterday about quantum cryptography protocols. Halfway through the talk the speaker mentioned that some of them were vulnerable to what he called 'beamsplitter attacks'.

All I could think of after that was an immage of a guy looking fiercely, brandishing a beamsplitter, yelling "BEAMSPLITTER ATTACK!"

For some reason, that kind of ruined the talk.

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