Crypto with Epoxy Tokens, Glass Balls and Lasers

Anonymous Coward writes "Scientists from MIT and ThingMagic have collaborated and developed an innovative crypto mechanism using epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers. They have actually created a physical one-way function that cannot be tampered, copied or faked! The full scoop can be found at MSNBC, and also at Nature, & TOI."

Great!!

[Unknown Poltroon]

Let me just install that on my laptop.....

And this is humor, not a troll, lets see if youre smart enough to mod it that way.

Epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers.

[nob]

Geez people, can't we at least get some frickin sharks too?

Tokens, glass balls and lasers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like a kinky high-tech peep show.

hmm...

[Quasar1999]

Can't be tampered with? Give me a hammer, I'll tamper with it... If I can't have the data, no one can!!!

In a related story....

[Tha_Big_Guy23]

McGuyver has made plans to begin work at MIT in their research department to create supercomputers from old ballpoint pens, and outdated telephone mechanisms.

I already have one of these in my wallet..

[gsfprez]

actually, i have 3.

there are 50 or so of em lying around at home, making my wife mad.

so explain again why guitar picks [westsky.com] are news?
(my apologies to westsky in advance)

Headline from Nature reads:

[dr_dank]

Cheap trick secures secrets

Finally! Something to go hand-in-hand with my REO Speedwagon encryption algorithm.

Shit

[papasui]

And all these years my family has been persecuted in Salem, MA and it turns out all they wanted was our crystal balls!

Re:Old Technology, new twist

[still_sick]

So remember, the next time a nuclear scientist asks to borrow your elbow macaroni and glue-on sparkles, he might not be making a birthday card for his mom - he might be ensuring the security of the world!

Re:Shit

[papasui]

The most clever thing I've said in the last month and I get modded troll. I wish there was a Not Funny. :(

And the marketing poeple. . .

[dasboy]

will bill this as "Cryptography with balls."

Re:Obvious circumvention scheme

[Anonymous Coward]

don't know if they should be throwing around the word 'impossible', however.

It all depends whether you're Cameron Diaz in a leotard.

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

They have obviously never watched Jepordy:

"Answering the question 'how many months in a year?' is easy. But working out what question elicited the answer '12' is almost impossible"

Contestants on that show do this all the time....

Re:Remember the SGI Patent? #@ +1; Informative @#

[micromoog]

the crystal method is highly random and STATIC

Yeah, I agree. That band sucks.

Re:Epoxy tokens, glass spheres and lasers.

[Anonymous Coward]

We tested a shark with a token embedded in its head, but it kept attacking the girl who was ringing up the purchase.