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mswphdyesterday at 10:17 PM0 repliesview on HN

there is a strong anti-QKD bias among experts who understand QKD. It is fun academic concept, but does not solve a real world problem, and does not use techniques available at remotely comparable costs to classical cryptography in the real world, and even if you pay the enormous costs for it, it is trivial for an attacker to completely disrupt your communication in a way that cannot be recovered from (without out-of-band communication, e.g. either sending a courier, or using computational cryptography).

If you hate the NSA that's fine. Nobody in the EU cried foul over the NSA's recommendations though (and the NIST-winning schemes are European). Chinese scholars submitted some fundamentally similar schemes, the Chinese Academy of Sciences have formally recommended lattice-based schemes. While the Chinese (government-run) standardization is only starting, it is a very good bet that they will use a lattice-based scheme.

So, unless you think all of the world's governments (again, including China) are in a massive cabal to allow the NSA specifically to spy on the entire world, #2 is not a particularly valid question.