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This was a good read, though I understand very little of it. Still, it's exciting to imagine what possibilities this will allow and what potential needs it could fulfill. Anyone have some insight they'd like to share?
Well, with quantum internet, your browser history will exist in a superposition of both cleared and full of porn, each moment when showing someone your screen will be filled with tension. The only way out of that tension will be either to collapse the function by butt fucking, or inquire the state of their browser history.
I need to unread this.
Mostly secure key exchange via quantum key distribution. QKD automatically detects eavesdropping and can thereby guarantee a secure key exchange based on fundamental physics. That's basically it.
So, superior security then? Seems good.
Yes, physically secure key exchange, but at Tage same time mist progress also correlates with progress in quantum computing and quantum attacks on classical crypto and most key security problems are not due to transport attacks. But its a good thing.
Quantum internet is way overhyped and likely will never exist. There are not only no practical benefits to using QM for internet but it has huge inherent problems that make it unlikely to ever scale.
And all this for what? You have all these drawbacks for what? Imagined security benefits that you won't actually notice in real life? Only people I could ever see using this are governments that are hyperparanoid. A government intranet could be highly controlled, highly centralized, and not particularly large scale by its very nature that you don't want many people having access to it. So I could see such a government getting something like that to work, but there would be no reason to replace the internet with it.