Whoa (a la Keanu Reeves). I started reading this piece (thx Myrcurial) about researchers from MIT exploiting Quantum crypto and that started me thinking back to the movie Sneakers.
From Engadget:
It’s always only a matter of time. A little less than a year after the first quantum cryptographic network was demoed, a group of researchers at MIT have announced a working implementation of a hack that’s been around in theory since 1998 but never implemented. Skirting around ol’ Wernie Heisenberg and that Principle of his, the team exploited quantum entanglement to read the encryption keys encoded in photon polarizations from their momentums, avoiding detection by either end — in other words, doing what was once thought impossible by cryptographers.
I guess I wasn’t the only one who had that thought.
We’re just wondering if they’re pushing MIT to rename their department SETEC ASTRONOMY.
Too funny.
Tags: Quantum Cryptography, Crypto, MIT, SETEC ASTRONOMY
