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TechZ
December 21st, 2004, 02:28 PM
- Quantum cryptography (http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1377000,00.html) is the ultimate example of small-is-beautiful technology: information is encoded at the subatomic level on individual photons, the smallest known units of light. They can then be sent on optical fibre networks from one computer to another. To snoop on such messages undetected, a hacker would have to defy the laws of quantum mechanics.
They say this now, once released:

PR: "We have a found a flaw, buffer overflow if u will, and hackers can exploit it, so Patch it"

RejectionMan
December 22nd, 2004, 10:33 AM
But we just fianly got AES approved and supported by most vendors!

doh!

+Daemon+
December 22nd, 2004, 10:43 AM
bet they will find a way, some way they did not think of

Khazad
December 22nd, 2004, 10:51 AM
This reminds me of a cd that they claimed to be unburnable ... hackers put clectrical tape over the inner ring of the disc, and it worked perfectly.