Timeline for How is QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) advantageous over McEliece/AES?
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| Dec 15, 2023 at 21:13 | answer | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Apr 19, 2023 at 14:55 | comment | added | fgrieu♦ | Quantum Key Distribution is rightly popular as an experimentation and research field for quantum physicists. It's a time-proven way to get the attention of the press and attract public money. But it's far from universally popular among cryptographers and security professionals. My perception is that most are close to my opinion: there's no need for QKD. Read the position of French security authorities, with links to their US and UK counterparts. | |
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| Feb 2, 2021 at 13:02 | answer | added | Paul Uszak | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 2, 2021 at 11:08 | history | edited | Patriot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2020 at 20:46 | comment | added | poncho | There are most certainly QKD systems on the market (and have been for a number of years). | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 20:33 | comment | added | Evariste | I oughtn't to have said "just as much security". That is not quite true. Even though most of the current work is research, though, there are commercially-available QKD systems (I think), but I can't figure out why there is even a market. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 20:18 | comment | added | dandavis | It boils down to what you mean by "just as much security": practically? There's something to be said about "perfect" even if most people don't need perfect. Remember that most of the current work is research. Production scaling/efficiency is not a criterion for people working with QKD at this time. | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 19:41 | comment | added | poncho | "often coupled with OTP"; actually, from my view of the QKD community, QKD is most often coupled with AES (so that you're not limited by the bandwidth limitations of QKD, which has been improving over time, but still has limits). Of course, if you do that, you lose the supposed "security guaranteed by Quantum Physics" claim QKD makes, but still, that's what it appears people do in practice... | |
| Feb 21, 2020 at 19:01 | history | asked | Evariste | CC BY-SA 4.0 |