EU seeks quantum cryptography response to Echelon

[Thomas Shaddack]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:

> "Monyk believes there will be a global market of several million users once
> a workable solution has been developed. A political decision will have to
> be taken as to who those users will be in order to prevent terrorists and
> criminals from taking advantage of the completely secure communication
> network, he said."

Hope the technology hits the streets fast enough after getting on the
market. Monyk apparently doesn't believe that people who don't have the
money to buy the Official Approval have no right to access to this
technology.

> Silliness itself, at this point. Practical quantum cryptography at this
> point is limited to transmission. The moment it goes O/E, it's as vulnerable
> as any other data. And terrorists aren't going to bother splicing fiber.

There are quite many important activities that don't require storage of
the transported data.

For example, very very few people record their phone calls.