interesting and thought provoking resources on quantum crypto

i have been tasked by my advisor to create series of
mini-lectures
slides on the topic of cryptography for a freshman year CS
class. each
mini-lecture will be 10-12 mins and will be delivered
towards the end
of the class (so i will have to make them *very*
interesting). There
is be 12 sessions.

I know what to include in the slides, but i would like to
end each
session with a link/URL to a "interesting" and
"thought provoking"
resource on quantum crypto.

any thoughts? the resource has to be related to quantum
crypto....

saqib
http://www.full-d
isk-encryption.net

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:29:25PM -0800, Saqib Ali wrote:
> i have been tasked by my advisor to create series of
mini-lectures
> slides on the topic of cryptography for a freshman year
CS class.

You know, you shouldn't use the Internet to ask people to do
your
homework for you...  j/k

> any thoughts? the resource has to be related to quantum
crypto...

Well, this company sells quantum cryptography devices:
http://www.idquan
tique.com/home.htm

On the other side, any link collection on quantum
_cryptanalysis_
wouldn't be complete without Shor:

http://www-math.mit.ed
u/~shor/

I went to one of his lectures at my university, and it was
one of
those experiences where you know they're speaking English,
but it's
just not communicating information to you.  Usually this
means one of
two things; either they are trying to fool you, or you are
the fool.
I'm convinced it was the latter. I know an EPR pair from a
quantum
decoy, but I still have no idea what the angles on his
graphs had to
do with QC and superposition.

Lots of good papers on his electronic publications list:
http://ww
w-math.mit.edu/~shor/elecpubs.html

He points to this wiki:
http://www.qubit.org/

This page is about the watershed paper:
http://en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

And this page attempts to illustrate it:
http://pdivos.mobstop
.com/shor/
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