Sandia's New Wireless Technology
When dumb PR agents happen to good organizations:
Sandia Develops Secure Ultrawideband Wireless Network
The newly developed ultrawideband network, said the researchers at Sandia, is compatible with existing Internet protocols, which means that current Internet applications will be able to use standard transmission techniques and even high-level encryption up to and beyond 256 bits….
The newly developed network, said the researchers, is compatible with existing Internet protocols, which means that current Internet applications will be able to use standard transmission techniques and even high-level encryption up to and beyond 256 bits, which is currently double the amount considered essential for secure Internet transactions.
Wow. 256 is a lot of bits. I wonder where they put them all.
Jeroen van Rijn • June 29, 2005 1:27 PM
Upto and beyond… what a quaint phrasing, isn’t it usually either upto or beyond? It makes one wonder why they’re so gung ho about 256 bits indeed.
And a 256 bit Caesar cipher or ROT256 still doesn’t amount to much. It being a US govt. sponsored technology I’ll assume for the moment they’re talking AES256.