17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Timothy C. May writes: [ Russians developed PK crypto circa 1960 ]
The Kolmogorov system is broken by computing the prime numbers which form what is called the modulus. This is done by randomly guessing the constituent primes and then detonating all of the stockpiled nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union for each "wrong guess." In the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, invented in 1949 by Lev Landau (and later, independently by Everett and Wheeler in the U.S.), all possible outcomes of a quantum experiment are realized.
So *that's* how you do quantum cryptography! Good article, Tim. Nice day for it too. -- Jeff