One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography 192
zrbyte writes "One-time pads are the holy grail of cryptography — they are impossible to crack, even in principle. However, the ability to copy electronic code makes one-time pads vulnerable to hackers. Now engineers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have found a way around this to create a system of cryptography that is invulnerable to electronic attack. Their solution is based on a special kind of one-time pad that generates a random key through the complexity of its physical structure, namely shining a light through a diffusive glass plate."
Moon Runes (Score:5, Funny)
So, the message can only be read by the light of a moon the same shape and season that the message was written on?
Physical vulnerability (Score:3, Funny)
Uncrackable glass plates? Forget cryptography, you should get into the windshield business!
Re:Impossible? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score:4, Funny)
This [xkcd.com] seems a little bit more appropriate.
Re:Not too long until an iceberg attack is reveale (Score:4, Funny)
All she does is sneak into his hotel room when he's asleep, generate his pad using his crystal and make a copy of it.
Sounds like a metaphor for something kinky...