Encryption is a thing of the past
A BOFFIN in the former Spanish colony of Texas has come up with a simple way of making electronic messages that are impossible to crack.
According to New Scientist, Laszlo Kish at Texas A&M University in College Station has come up with a cunning plan that uses the thermal properties of a simple wire to create a secure communications channel which outperforms quantum cryptography keys. His invention uses thermal noise which is generated by the natural agitation of electrons within a conductor.
Kish and fellow boffins at the University of Szeged in Hungary say this noise can be used to securely pass information, or an encryption key, down any wire, including a telephone line or network cable.
