Scientists have just successfully developed the world’s first ‘completely unbreakable’ password, with a level of security that can make today’s leading cracking methods fail.
This is the result obtained after many years of research by a group of scientists at St Andrews University (Scotland), combined with international colleagues at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Dr. Al Cruz, co-author of the study, said that the research team has developed a silicon chip that applies the rules of natural physics, including Chaos Theory and the laws of physics.
Meanwhile, digital information is initially stored in the form of light.
This new encryption method does not use programming codes or software for security
Although admitting that `no type of encryption is impossible to crack`, Dr. Al Cruz affirmed that the use of physical rules for security makes this encryption method much more ‘unmatched’ than
`It’s all just hardware and physics,` Dr. Cruz said.
Of course, the newly developed cryptography is completely ‘immune’ to traditional cracking methods, because they do not have software or programming codes for hackers to manipulate or interfere with.
Even if people with bad intentions gain physical access to the chip, then copy or modify the internal components, these effects can only prevent the security mechanism.
Quantum computers are said to be capable of cracking all current encryption methods
Notably, this new cryptography technology is also hailed as having the ability to prevent the threat of quantum computers, and can be used in existing communication systems.
`With the advent of quantum supercomputers with extremely powerful computing capabilities, all current encryptions will be broken in a very short time,` said Dr. Andrea Frirthocchi, head of the team
`This new technique is completely uncrackable, as we clearly show in our report,` said professor Andrea di Falco of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St.