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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Supersecret Codes Made of Light Closer to Reality?


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An Enigma coding machine using by German forces during World War II sits on display at Bletchley Park National Code Centre in England in a November 2004 photo. Allied decryption of German Enigma codes is often credited with helping end the war by 1945.

In June 2009 Austrian physicists made a new advance in quantum encryption, which could led to codes that can't be hacked without revealing the hackers.

Photograph by Ian Waldie/Getty Images