Re: *Quantum Computing* expert Bill Munro

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 04/06/03


From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 6 Apr 2003 15:41:49 GMT

daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) writes:

]John Savard wrote:
]>... and his colleague Keith Harrison were billed as encryption experts in
]>a recent New Scientist item which I just saw today.
]>
]>In any event, these researchers called on scientists around the world to
]>develop ciphers resistant to attack by quantum computers.

]Do you mean this article?
]http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/quantum/quantum.jsp?id=23801700
]That "news" article was a little odd -- there seemed to be little
]new in the article.

New SCientist is getting to be a bit odd these days. It seems that they
see the National Enquirer as their main competition.