[IP] Could freezing light negate Quantum cryptography?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Richard Outerbridge <outer@sympatico.ca>
Date: August 4, 2006 7:04:34 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Could freezing light negate Quantum cryptography?

Dave,

This month's IEEE Spectrum article : http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/ 
aug06/4252

to my very amateur mind raises questions about the viability of  
quantum cryptography.

If a photon can be frozen (and I can't say whether their technique  
can be extended
to the photon level) can it be measured in its frozen state?  That  
would make the
difference.

Richard Outerbridge





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