DARPA takes step toward ‘holy grail of encryption’ – Livescience.com

The U.S. defense department is searching for what could be considered the “holy grail of data encryption,” which would seal up a loophole that allows hackers to access sensitive information while it’s being processed.
In modern encryption
, a well-defined set of calculations, known as an algorithm, scrambles data so that it’s no longer readable. Those allowed access to the data are given a string of numbers called a key, which is the code that lets you unscramble that data again.
If someone wanted…

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