Re: (fwd) Russians Break RSA?

[Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>]

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