*Source: News Blog (News.com) (
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-977...7-1040_3-0-5)*
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Aerospace giant European Aeronautic Defence and Space (
http://www.eads.com/1024/de/pressdb/...k_Ectocryp.htm) has introduced a "hacker-proof" encryption technology that it claims will revolutionize Internet security and bring "cryptography into the 21st century."
The system, called "Ectocryp (http://www.eadsdsuk.com/fileadmin/doc/ectocryp_blue.pdf)," was developed for military and business applications by researchers and engineers at EADS' Defence and Security Systems division in Newport, South Wales. The team relied on technology developed by the U.K.'s Government Communications Headquarters (
http://www.gchq.gov.uk/codebreaking/index.html), sister agency to the NSA and formerly known as Government Code and Cypher School, of German Enigma (
http://www.news.com/Distributed+comp...3-6043572.html) fame.
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