May 10, 2004
Nice work. This may interest you, appropos of nowt in particular save possible implications for cryptography:
he multinational group from Canberra's Australian National University (ANU) have become the first on this particular planet to demonstrate the sharing of secrets via teleportation using quantum physics.
Who cares? Well, a lot of big businesses, because their discovery has moved unbreakable codes, superfast computers and communications inaccessible to cybercriminals a step closer.
What the team's find boils down to is that, using a laser, they can teleport to a network of recipients a signal which can only be reassembled by a majority of the recipients. Any less and the signal cannot be reconstituted.
The team's leader, Chinese-born Ping Koy Lam, was building on work done by the university in 2002, when they teleported information using a laser beam.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1208&e=1&u=/afp/20040510/tc_afp/science_australia&sid=96001014
Posted by: Craig at May 10, 2004 11:30 PM