Swiss Votes to Use 'Unbreakable' Code

October 11, 2007 By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton (state) of Geneva in the country's upcoming national elections, officials said Thursday.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Cryptic messages boost data security

Nov 29, 2007 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Probing Question: Is the Electoral College an outdated system?

Feb 28, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (14) | 5

Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system

Mar 05, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (28) | 12

Electronic methods potentially secure for sending blank ballots overseas

Dec 23, 2008 | not rated yet | 0

Beating the codebreakers with quantum cryptography

Apr 28, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (22) | 1

Rate this story - 4.2 /5 (10 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

1hour ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Technology / Energy

1hour ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...

Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

4 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...

Improving security with face recognition technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

5 hours ago | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 2

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...