Cryptography


Take the Time to Break Quantum Encryption -- Rachel Ehrenberg  -- Science News  -- November 12, 2008
Cryptography

Time travel, such as, say, through a “wormhole,” appears to make it possible to distinguish quantum information that usually can’t be distinguished. That ability would disrupt the absolute security of quantum encryption, theoretical physicist Todd Brun and collaborators report online in the quantum physics archive.

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'Unbreakable' Encryption Unveiled -- Roland Pease  -- BBC News  -- October 9, 2008
Quantum Cryptography

Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna.

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Quantum encryption at the verge of commercial use -- Christoph Hammerschmidt  -- EE Times  -- October 9, 2008
Cryptography

A group of international researchers and Siemens Austria has demonstrated in Vienna the transmission of quantum-encrypted messages across commercial telecommunication links. The achievement could bring quantum encryption close to commercial deployment.

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Space Station Could Beam Secret Quantum Codes by 2014 -- JR Minkel  -- Scientific American  -- June 9, 2008
Quantum Cryptography

University of Vienna researchers hope to send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) by the middle of the next decade that would pave the way for transcontinental transmission of secret messages encoded using quantum entanglement.

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US scientists crack secret codes for EU satellite system -- Staff  -- UK Telegraph  -- July 11, 2006
Satellites

Secret codes used by the forthcoming European satellite navigation system, Galileo, have been cracked by American scientists, casting doubt on European Union promises that the £2.3 billion project will pay for itself through commercial fees.

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Your secrets are safe with quasar encryption -- Will Knight  -- New Scientist  -- March 29, 2006
Astronomy

Japanese scientists have come up with a method for encrypting messages using quasars, which emit radio waves and are thought to be powered by black holes.

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Amateur Cracks Secret Nazi Code -- Walaika K. Haskins,  -- Newsfactor  -- March 2, 2006
Metacomputing

Nazi code that eluded the best cryptographers the Allied forces had to offer during World War II has been solved by an amateur codebreaker with the assistance of a network of computers.

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Distributed Computing to Crack WWII Encryption -- Staff  -- M4 Project  -- February 24, 2006
Cryptography

The M4 Message Breaking Project is harnessing the power of distributed computing to crack a few remaining Enigma intercepts from WWII. The first intercept has already been broken and an interpretation posted.

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Scientists Create Unbreakable Diamond Code -- Staff  -- Associated Press  -- May 3, 2005
Cryptography

Australian scientists believe they have developed an unbreakable information code to stop hackers, using a diamond, a kitchen microwave oven and an optical fibre.

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Distributed Computing Key to Decoding Human Factor -- Brian Krebs  -- Washington Post  -- March 28, 2005
Cryptography

The Secret Service, inspired by the popularity and success of distributed computing projects like SETI@Home program, is using a distributed computing program on about 4,000 of its office computers to crack encrypted documents critical for its investigations.

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