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CRYPTOGRAPHY: Simple Noise May Stymie Spies Without Quantum Weirdness
Adrian Cho
A wire and a few resistors may convey a message as securely as more exotic "quantum cryptography" schemes can, says a physicist who has devised a simple and--he claims--uncrackable scheme.