'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

Use a quantum computer to crack it.

quantum eh? more condom!! eh?eh? no? ok...

More encryption hyperbole?

If it is impossible to be decrypted then it will be decrypted in the same way 'Enigma' was decrypted - theft of the procedure.

Who has that kind of money these days? Organized Crime.

Encryption security next generation, and next, and next. Oh well it keeps engineers busy now doesn't it.

By the time this is affordable, nobody will have anything to secure anyway! It's the end of the world? Didn't they get the memo?

There is no such thing as "Unbreakable" Encryption- per say.
They can only call it that, because - currently -, even with the strongest of super computers, the amount of time it would take to crack it would be implausible.

For instance, if it took 20 years to crack your gmail account password, you could call it unbreakable, because nobody would ever spend 20 years trying to crack 1 password.

good try though.

chillwillNJ,

1/ You don't know that it WOULD take 20 years, do you?

2/ How many centuries have scholars driven themselves batty over pi? And other conjectures of academic interest only?

3/ If it is deemed enough of an intellectual challenge - or a state imperative based on national security [eg the Russians or Chinese start using the same encryption technology] it is credulous to believe that someone, either an eccentric genius, or an institution, won't spend as long as it takes to break the code in less than 20 years.

something that you're forgetting, no matter how good you are at hacking, you are still an observer, and the observer is the entire reason why this system would be unbreakable. the very act of seeing disturbs the photon function and the pattern emitted at point of transmission is peverted into a non uniform code, which quite literally, is realized by the reciever at the speed of light, and instantaniously the connection is dropped and transmitting stops, far before pattern monitoring and decryption is remotely possible.

its not even the encryption itself, its the mode of transit of the signal.

look up "double slit experiment", very good explanation for the effect that observation has on quantum variable events.

jonny2times,

You're looking through one slit only - there are at least two.

One declares 'for technical reasons this system is impregnable!' and that you find agreeable.

No one is contesting the merits of transmission.

The other slit says - there are thousands of other ways such messages may be intercepted - after transmission - and security compromised.

That is disagreeable and instead you revert back to whether the photon function is disturbed.

what are you talking about? look, the photons are broadcast in a pattern, lets use binaries... 001011001, see the pattern here? ok, lets say each binary position is created by a entangled photon being either in the up or down position, making 001011001=down,down,up,down,up,up,down,down,up. follow me? someone tries to eavesdrop on the transmission, not only is the position compromised and scrambled, but also the order, both transmitter and reciever see their pattern break, drop connection, and if this is the only external connection to the internet, a hacker is hosed. theres no DSL or broadband, just a quantum paradox set up like a trap. no reverse engineering the pattern, cause you never get but about 5 bytes into the datastream before its set off, and if its a 1028bit encryption, 1028/5=~206, take you about 206 tries catching perfectly sequential bits(and im not going to calculate those odds right now because that is a staggering ratio im sure), and after 205 restarts of the system for a eavesdropper, odds are the target has reset their encryption key multiple times, try again avery. and if you're suggesting getting a computer capable of broadcasting this way so you can hack it without disrupting the photon function, about $320k and if some random dude started piping me photons, i'd block their IP Address. and unless the person using this quantum link is a 15 year old kid, they're going to have a key switcher and a descent encryption generator.

and avery, and the double slit thing is just a experimental manifestation of the effect an observer has on a quantum event, not a statement of quantitive possibility in relation to perspective.