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It would be useful for any organization that has the means to implement this. I can see AWS datacenters and rich governments rolling our their own QKD.
by joconde 5y ago
It would be useful for any organization that has the means to implement this. I can see AWS datacenters and rich governments rolling our their own QKD.
- cryptonector 5y agoYou can't authenticate it. It's not secure. Full stop.
- joconde 5y agoWhy would it be impossible for a government or large cloud company to control all the nodes in a QKD system? In that case, they could rely on the physics to detect eavesdropping. The problem for simple customers is that they can't be sure that the transmission isn't MITM'd somewhere, but that's only because they don't build and maintain the whole channel themselves.