NEC developed "uncrackable" encryption

Tokyo 24 Jan 00 NEC says it had developed computer encryption technology offering a far higher degree of security than products currently in use. Engineers at the firm claim that even a supercomputer would need several hundred million years to crack the code.

Designed to protect data transferred during business-to-business e-commerce transactions, the system should be commercially available this summer.

Engineers at the firm claim that even a supercomputer would need several hundred million years to crack the code. They also say testing proved the system was more secure than AES, an encryption method that the US government may adopt as its standard. "The new technology is the world's most iron-clad encryption platform and is virtually impossible to decode," one official said.

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