Scientists have claimed they have developed an “absolutely unbreakable” code that represents the first “uncrackable” security system in the world.
As the University of St Andrews researchers insisted, their security system will be able to protect sensitive data from all kinds of cyber-attacks.
According to the experts behind the project, the new technology will be able to stop all cyber threats including the attacks carried out by quantum computers.
As the scientists explained, the security system implements silicon chips with advanced structures that cannot be intercepted or recreated and are permanently changed as they transmit information.
“This new technique is absolutely unbreakable, as we rigorously demonstrated in our article,” professor and author of the study Andrea di Falco said, speaking of the results presented in Nature Communications.
“It can be used to protect the confidentiality of communications exchanged by users separated by any distance, at an ultrafast speed close to the light limit and in inexpensive and electronic compatible optical chips.”
As Dr. Andrea Fratalocchi, the lead of the study, added, the new encryption method will remain uncrackable, whereas the current security systems “will be broken in very short time” due to “more powerful and quantum computers.”
“For instance, an attacker can store an encrypted message that is sent today and wait for the right technology to become available to decipher the communication,” Dr. Fratalocchi added.
“Implementing massive and affordable resources of global security is a worldwide problem that this research has the potential to solve for everyone, and everywhere. If this scheme could be implemented globally, crypto-hackers will have to look for another job.”
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