From: rah@shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:46:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Science News - article on Quantum Crypto
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>The new Science News that showed up in today's mail
>has a short but informative article on quantum
>cryptography.  It explains what quantum crypto is for
>us newbies and gives the history of a recent success
>in Lake Geneva (Switzerland, not Wisconsin) - an
>encrypted message was sent 22.7 km over fiber-optic
>cable successfully.  It's a nice article.

Does anyone know if the new in-line optical amplifiers (not switches!) have
any effect on quantum crypto messages?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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