"Secret quantum network could make Internet perfectly secure"
The full article is available here, and it's pretty interesting.
However, the headline itself made me giggle, because something tells me this isn't likely to happen. While quantum computing can protect a packet from interception, it does nothing to protect a computer against the potentially malicious content of any of those packets. The kind of threat it would make impossible is not any kind of threat involving viruses, trojans, keyloggers or other forms of malware. That's a far cry from "perfectly secure," even if it can cut down on information stealing via packet interception. When two computers are communicating with each other, securing the connection is only part of the process of securing the interaction. The other part is making sure that what Computer A receives from Computer B is good and not malicious and vice versa. And quantum computing is not likely to change security in that respect.
What do you all think of quantum computing? I like the idea of it for non-security-related reasons.
