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Re:Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography by gliptic on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:05AM (#28314405)
But the man in the middle would just do the receiving and then resending it to the real recipient with a new key.
Re:Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography by baby on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:01PM (#28316664)
No but see, they would need to have QKD technology which is too complex and expensive.
Re:Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography by bitwize on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:14PM (#28321669)
If the "man" in the middle is the NSA, no expense will be spared.
Re:Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography by arksingrad on Thursday August 26, 2021 @02:43PM (#28318856)
MITM can only re-send the correct key if he knows the correct basis to measure in for every qubbit. The probability that he measures in the correct basis for every qubit is exponentially unlikely as the length of the bitstring grows. He can't just forward along the proper qubit to the receiver in this case.
Re:Toshiba reports milestone in quantum cryptography by gliptic on Thursday August 26, 2021 @03:57PM (#28319816)
But he has man-in-the-middle'd the channel over which that is communicated too. If the benefit is merely that he would need to hijack two different channels, you could just do classical crypto and splitting the key into two parts (e.g. XOR with random bits) and send those over two channels.