[pchelpers] Article: The Emerging Science of DNA Cryptography

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 18, @01:41PM
from the tight-genes dept. 

KentuckyFC writes "Since the mid 90s, researchers have been using DNA to
carry out massively parallel calculations which threaten encryption
schemes such as DES. Now one researcher says that if DNA can be used to
attack encryption schemes, it can also protect data too. His idea is to
exploit the way information is processed inside a cell to encrypt it.
The information that DNA holds is processed in two stages in a cell. In
the first stage, called transcription, a DNA segment that constitutes a
gene is converted into messenger RNA (mRNA) which floats out of the
nucleus and into the body of the cell. Crucially, this happens only
after the noncoding parts of the gene have been removed and the
remaining sequences spliced back together."

More here:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/1717239&from=rss
-- 
John Durham
Site http://modecideas.com
Server hosted on Ubuntu 4.10
Good advice is like good paint. It only works when applied.



-- 
-------list-services-below-----------
Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers
PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig
Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig
Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.

Other related posts: