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New Design Enables More Cost-Effective Quantum Key Distribution
May 29, 2008 Researchers have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing cryptographic keys using quantum cryptography, the most secure method of transmitting data. The new method ... > full story -
Educating Managers On Computer Fraud Could Cut Crime
May 23, 2008 A computer scientist has devised an antifraud strategy for business. He suggests that managers should be made aware of security issues and send out cues to junior staff that they have this knowledge. ... > full story -
Quantum Cryptography: Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Crypto
May 8, 2008 Quantum cryptography has been regarded as 100-percent protection against attacks on sensitive data traffic. But now a research team in Sweden has found a hole in this advanced technology. The risk of ... > full story -
New Basic Element For Electronic Circuits: 'Memristor' Could Give Computers Memories That Don't Forget
May 1, 2008 Researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. This scientific advancement could ... > full story -
Beating The Codebreakers With Quantum Cryptography
April 28, 2008 Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache. Cryptography is an arms race, but the finish line may ... > full story -
Secure Communications Via Space
April 22, 2008 The exchange of information between distant sources is the basis of all communications, but quantum mechanics may open up this distant exchange as never before. Quantum key distribution, for ... > full story -
Computer Scientists Develop Solutions For Long-Term Storage Of Digital Data
April 21, 2008 Although the digital age is well under way, one crucial detail remains to be worked out -- how to store vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover ... > full story -
Airport Security From Chaos
April 16, 2008 There's safety in numbers -- especially when those numbers are random. That's the lesson learned from new research that is already helping to beef up security at LAX airport in Los Angeles. Soon it ... > full story -
On-Card Fingerprint Match Is Secure, Speedy
April 2, 2008 A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets the standardized accuracy criteria for federal ... > full story -
A Chemical 'Keypad Lock' For Biomolecular Computers
March 24, 2008 Researchers are reporting an advance toward a new generation of ultra-powerful computers built from DNA and enzymes, rather than transistors, silicon chips, and plastic. They describe development of ... > full story
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