Quantum cryptography gets "practical"

[Dave Howe]

Steve Furlong wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:50, Dave Howe wrote:
>>The "regular encryption scheme" (last I looked at a QKE product) was XOR....
> Well, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for everyone.
> I have it on good authority that Microsoft's designers and programmers
> are second to none. (Microsoft's marketing department is a good
> authority, right?)
well, what they *don't* tell you is the question was "which would you 
prefer to impliment security, a microsoft programmer or none at all" and 
they *still* came second :)