[Dracian]

You can be sure al-Qaeda is reading up on it.

Unless they own the electronics on both ends of the fiber, this knowledge wouldn't do anyone any good.

[theDentist]

Perhaps not immediately, but given time and breakthroughs...

[rit]

Agreed. They will need fiber throughout the entire network in which the message travel. In my opinion, architecting a more appropriate public key infrastructure would make more sense.