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Crypto with Epoxy Tokens, Glass Balls and Lasers

Posted by michael on from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists from MIT and ThingMagic have collaborated and developed an innovative crypto mechanism using epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers. They have actually created a physical one-way function that cannot be tampered, copied or faked! The full scoop can be found at MSNBC, and also at Nature, & TOI."

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  1. Great!! by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let me just install that on my laptop.....

    And this is humor, not a troll, lets see if youre smart enough to mod it that way.

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  2. Epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers. by nob · · Score: 1, Funny

    Geez people, can't we at least get some frickin sharks too?

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    1. Re:Epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      We tested a shark with a token embedded in its head, but it kept attacking the girl who was ringing up the purchase.

  3. Tokens, glass balls and lasers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like a kinky high-tech peep show.

  4. hmm... by Quasar1999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't be tampered with? Give me a hammer, I'll tamper with it... If I can't have the data, no one can!!!

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  5. In a related story.... by Tha_Big_Guy23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    McGuyver has made plans to begin work at MIT in their research department to create supercomputers from old ballpoint pens, and outdated telephone mechanisms.

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  6. I already have one of these in my wallet.. by gsfprez · · Score: 5, Funny

    actually, i have 3.

    there are 50 or so of em lying around at home, making my wife mad.

    so explain again why guitar picks are news?
    (my apologies to westsky in advance)

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  7. Headline from Nature reads: by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheap trick secures secrets

    Finally! Something to go hand-in-hand with my REO Speedwagon encryption algorithm.

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  8. Shit by papasui · · Score: 4, Funny

    And all these years my family has been persecuted in Salem, MA and it turns out all they wanted was our crystal balls!

    1. Re:Shit by papasui · · Score: 2, Funny

      The most clever thing I've said in the last month and I get modded troll. I wish there was a Not Funny. :(

  9. Re:Old Technology, new twist by still_sick · · Score: 5, Funny

    So remember, the next time a nuclear scientist asks to borrow your elbow macaroni and glue-on sparkles, he might not be making a birthday card for his mom - he might be ensuring the security of the world!

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  10. And the marketing poeple. . . by dasboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    will bill this as "Cryptography with balls."

  11. Re:Obvious circumvention scheme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    don't know if they should be throwing around the word 'impossible', however.

    It all depends whether you're Cameron Diaz in a leotard.

  12. Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    They have obviously never watched Jepordy:

    "Answering the question 'how many months in a year?' is easy. But working out what question elicited the answer '12' is almost impossible"

    Contestants on that show do this all the time....

  13. Re:Remember the SGI Patent? #@ +1; Informative @# by micromoog · · Score: 5, Funny
    the crystal method is highly random and STATIC

    Yeah, I agree. That band sucks.