Random bits

“For those of you who believe that the RBN vanished in November, 2007, it didn’t. It went dark shortly after a meeting between agents of the FBI and FSB occurred in Moscow. It remains a key part of the Kremlin’s Information Warfare strategy by providing the infrastructure for non-state actors to engage opposition groups in various cyber operations ranging from espionage to network attacks.”

“The vulnerability in [typical QKD] systems…is that there is a photon that can be intercepted. As a result, there is always the possibility of developing an attack based on the transit of that photon. But what if the photon never needs to be sent?”

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