Is Quantum Cryptography the Future of Unbreakable Encryption?

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The discussion centers on the potential of quantum cryptography as a method for unbreakable encryption, exploring its theoretical foundations, practical applications, and implications for current encryption methods. Participants also touch on related concepts such as entanglement and quantum mechanics, although some contributions diverge from the main topic.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes quantum cryptography as using polarized photons to create theoretically unbreakable codes, suggesting that current RSA ciphers are secure for the foreseeable future.
  • Another participant introduces concepts of quantum information and entanglement, referencing research on how motion can create entanglement, although this is seen as tangential to quantum cryptography.
  • Some participants express confusion about the relevance of certain contributions to the topic of quantum cryptography, questioning how discussions of entanglement and "spooky action at a distance" relate to encryption methods.
  • A participant mentions a personal interest in teleportation and cryptography, indicating a broader curiosity about quantum phenomena.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

There is no consensus on the relevance of certain contributions to the main topic of quantum cryptography, with some participants questioning the connection of discussions on entanglement to encryption. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the integration of these concepts.

Contextual Notes

Some contributions introduce complex ideas from quantum mechanics that may not directly relate to quantum cryptography, leading to potential misunderstandings about the topic's scope.

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Quantum Cryptography is the process of encrypting information with polarised photons. This makes a theoretically and practically unbreakable code that would ensure good communication forever. You can run the photons by fibre optic cables but not in the air because the signal dissipates. The point is that we can do it right now, but there is no need to because our current asymmetric RSA ciphers would take the NSA about 500 billions years to decipher. I have no contention, i just think this is cool. The ultimate achievement would be to invent a quantum computer that could break an RSA cipher instaneously due to superposition. however then we could just use the quantum cipher. :smile:

Any Questions?
 
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Hawking radiation derived as a consequence of quantum information in curved spacetime

What is spooky action at a distance?

Now Robert Gingrich and Christoph Adami of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California say that a boost can actually create spin or momentum entanglement, or both, between two particles that had neither to begin with. The speed change can also enhance entanglement in spin at the expense of momentum entanglement, or reduce them both. "If you can create [entanglement] just by moving with respect to what you're measuring, then seemingly you've created something from nothing," says Gingrich.

http://focus.aps.org/story/v10/st29

Any comments?

I just wanted to let you know, as well as slyboy, that I have been interested in this topic for a while.

http://www.superstringtheory.com/forum/partboard/messages20/139.html Action At a Distance

When I refer to LIGO, some might understand why :confused:
 
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....o...k...apart from that having nothing to do with quantum cryptography
 
Gelsamel Epsilon said:
....o...k...apart from that having nothing to do with quantum cryptography

okay...your reasons why?

"Obvious though this commonsense description may seem, it is seriously at odds with modern physics. Albert Einstein famously expressed this point when he wrote to a friend, "The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones." Einstein's startling conclusion stems directly from his special theory of relativity, which denies any absolute, universal significance to the present moment. According to the theory, simultaneity is relative. Two events that occur at the same moment if observed from one reference frame may occur at different moments if viewed from another."--Dr. Paul Davies

http://superstringtheory.com/forum/metaboard/messages18/214.html[/URL]

[B]Exorcising Spooky[/B]
[I]Now Karl Hess and Walter Philipp of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provide evidence that Einstein may have been right to be sceptical - there may indeed be another set of rules underlying quantum theory1[/I].

http://www.nature.com/nsu/011129/011129-15.html

[B]Mesons violate Bell’s inequality[/B]
[I]Quantum mechanics predicts that "non-local" correlations can exist between the particles. This means that if one photon is polarized in, say, the vertical direction, the other will always be polarized in the horizontal direction, no matter how far away it is. However, some physicists argue that this cannot be true and that quantum particles must have local values - known as "hidden variables" - that we cannot measure. [/I]

[url]http://www.physicsweb.org/article/news/7/11/3[/url]
 
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What does this have to do with Quantum Cryptography?

sol2 said:
What is spooky action at a distance?

Now Robert Gingrich and Christoph Adami of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California say that a boost can actually create spin or momentum entanglement, or both, between two particles that had neither to begin with. The speed change can also enhance entanglement in spin at the expense of momentum entanglement, or reduce them both. "If you can create [entanglement] just by moving with respect to what you're measuring, then seemingly you've created something from nothing," says Gingrich.

http://focus.aps.org/story/v10/st29

Any comments?

I just wanted to let you know, as well as slyboy, that I have been interested in this topic for a while.

http://www.superstringtheory.com/forum/partboard/messages20/139.html Action At a Distance

When I refer to LIGO, some might understand why :confused:


What does this have to do with Quantum Cryptography?
This information, while interesting, does not seem to relate to my subject, Quantum Cryptography.
 
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Teleportation and cryptography are very close to me, but I could be wrong.

Enjoy
 

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