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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

Posted by timothy on from the feed-your-flashdrive dept.

Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."

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  1. Re:Funny by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's because, if you try to read the TFA you don't get very far. Even with NoScript more or less completely unloaded, I can't get the links to work.

    As far as I can tell, they "encrypt" data with a specific nuclease. If that's all they do, then following the sequence specific behaviors of the enzyme should allow you do 'decrypt' it which isn't terribly secure. But I really can't follow what they are actually doing, if anything.

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