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Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code
IAmTheDave writes "Researchers at Melbourne University have grown diamond particles 1/1000 of a millimetre on optical fibres which they can use to transmit single photons of light at a time. The diamonds are grown on the optical fiber by raining carbon molecules onto the tip of the fiber. They claim that by transmitting information in single photons, any interception of transmitted photons will be useless to the interceptor, and thus the message will be completely unhackable. Transmission speeds are currently slow - 120km/h, but are expected to speed up."
Stretch 3000 miles of this across the atlantic, set up a secret recieving station on the African coast, and voila! One secret, untappable method for my world takeover, I mean, world communication plan!
So its really is true:
Diamond (encryptions) are forever!!
Buh wump dump.
(thanks. I will be here all week.)
um...I think you were.
I was thinking about a hundred slashdotters screaming nothing is unhackable.
Anyone want a game of quake? We could have like 1000 pings. It'll be like old times again!
I like muppets.
>> Usually slowing down light that much takes a great deal of infrastructure and effort, it's rarely a side-effect.
I think they did it by forming the photons into committees. They spend more time forming action plans and holding meetings than actually moving. Some of them actually go backwards...
http://request-header.info
Hookay, so, how are remote logins supposed to work?
So these are Canadian electrons, eh ?
-- "It's not stalking if you're married!" My Wife.
People on earth are bored to hack data at this speed.
I really don't think this tech is going anywhere.
It's not that the code is unhackable, it's just that hackers won't be hacking into your bank account anymore. They'll just take the diamonds.
Stop nitpicking about units! I have it on good authority that the author of this story made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, so he is a quite an expert on these matters.
Slashdot and the www.news.com.au couldn't have both made the same screamingly stupid mistake and meant 120 kilobits per hour, right? Right?
Well, wait for tomorrow's dupe and see if it's corrected.
I've always heard that certain languages were faster than others, but I didn't know that the speeds of languages can be measured in kilometers an hour? C must be pretty fast then.
What I find amazing is that you're studying for a PhD and yet you can't use the proper form of your. Not to mention you can't spell route. :|
You're nothing; like me.
Details are important.
If Einstein hadn't paid attention to details, he may never have discovered America.
I had this largish thing describing what I thought of this relativly cool technology and my reticence in buying into it as the "Next Big Thing(tm)" but I think I can sum it up like this:
"All your diamond are belong to us" -- lopht
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
It just relies on a perpetual motion device to power the division by zero generator.