Optical Cryptography 158
chill writes: "In Cryptonomicon, Neil Stephenson wrote about Bell Labs' research into using static, or chaotic signals to mask communications. A message would be generated, then the signal masked in noise. Someone on the other end would subtract out the noise to get the signal. Works great if both ends have the exact same noise. Now, Jia-ming Liu, professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, is giving a presentation on doing essentially the same thing using OC-48 (2.5 Gbps) optical circuits. The presentation will be at the upcoming Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibit. There is an article covering this and some other nice advances in optical over in Wired."
Cryptonomicon (Score:2, Funny)
Or is it just that I'm studying World War II?
DMCA (Score:4, Funny)
OC-48 (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't this a bit like 2048-bit encryption? Sure it's a good idea, but the technology requirements are a bit excessive.
Didn't we see this somewhere before? (Score:3, Funny)
Why didn't somebody think of this before?
Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)