Some news, views and musing about things going on in the Information Security World.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Unbreakable Encryption already Broken
After 10 years of hearing different theories of how quantum mechanics can be used to implement unbreakable encryption, a fellow Canadian has done the deed, and discovered a fairly simple method for deriving the secret keys used in an encrypted communication. It seems appropriate to mention that every time scientists start talking like salesmen, calling their "discoveries" unbreakable, unbeatable, undetectable, etc, someone comes along to prove the theory wrong. Ah well, better luck next time.
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