Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Fiber optics may beat hackers / Monsters & Critics, 27 Feb 2006

http://digbig.com/4gmxr
Stokely Baksh
"Hackers should take note that researchers have successfully completed a new technique that could nab eavesdroppers in the future. Published in the Feb. 24 issue of 'Physical Review Letters,' their study looked at manipulating the intensity of photons in order to create 'decoys' to catch eavesdroppers.
Researchers also expanded the encryption key rate and distance for the technique, using a commercial device."