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Totally Random One Time Pads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the random-is-as-random-does dept.

liliafan writes "Scientists in Japan have come up with a way of harnessing a truly random datasource for generating one time encryption pads: Quasars. One time encryption pads are widely accepted as being the most secure form of encryption, but this new technology from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology makes the pads even more secure."

3 of 265 comments (clear)

  1. Not random enough by isj · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can just decrypt it using the data from http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/011 5216 :-)

  2. Duped again! by Dieppe · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This new fangled encryption is so good it's like I'm seeing double!

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/011 5216

  3. Random Duplicationist by poena.dare · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thank the gods they aren't using /. for randomness:

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/011 5216