Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem

There are numerous problems:
1. You need _optical_ switches, i.e. switched circuits. That approach failed a long time ago. Anybody remember ATM?
2. 90km is nothing. Amplification is impossible, so unless they reach 10'000km, this is completely irrelevant.
3. Nobody needs it. Cryptography does fine. (No, this is at best "quantum modulation", no crypto involved.) If you are paranoid, use OTPs. They are far, far cheaper, far, far more reliable and completely compatible with existing networks.
4. Remember, this is only key exchange, not actual data transmission. As such it is pretty useless, as you still need to rely on cryptography for the message transfer.
5. The security guarantees are far, far weaker than people are made to believe. Just look at the history of successful compromises.
6. Not even the physics may work out. Quantum theory is a _theory_, not established fact.

Another worthless stunt.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/akhW918R2MQ/story01.htm

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