Thursday, 3. October 2002

Light holds key to uncrackable codes


Communication satellites could soon be using a technique to produce secret messages that are reputedly uncrackable, thanks to experiments by British and German researchers. The team from QinetiQ, the commercial arm of Britain's defence research agency, and their colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, say they developed a secure method for sending the encryption keys used to unscramble coded information.

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