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Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code

Posted by Zonk on from the lol-hi-no-1-can-r34d-th1s dept.

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."

3 of 363 comments (clear)

  1. Plain Old Encryption Not Good Enough? by scruffy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You would think that ordinary encryption would be much more than sufficient for anything less than the NSA.

  2. Re:Question by he-sk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The parent post was brought to you by the GNU FDL

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  3. Re:Ummmm.... by filterchild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C is the universal language. You can do anything in C. Well, unless you want object-orientation. Or decent string handling. Or readable code.