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- jotate, on 10/21/2008, -0/+63I usually don't give a damn about typos, but units are important, damn it. GBps != Gbps.
- NathanielJ, on 10/22/2008, -0/+20The article said absolutely nothing about transfer speeds. It's about how fast they can ENCRYPT data, and your ISP isn't the one that encrypts data that goes to and from your computer.
- JankHank, on 10/22/2008, -0/+15Amen to that nerdy brethren.
- RyeBrye, on 10/22/2008, -2/+15Yeah... about 8 times different.
http://www.google.com/search?q=100GBps+to+Gbps - NathanielJ, on 10/22/2008, -0/+91b = 0.125B, actually. But good attempt at being nerdy. It's only been stated two times earlier in the comments, so it's easy to mess up.
- Chairboy, on 10/22/2008, -1/+10Yes, but how many parsecs will it take for it to do the Kessel Run?
- inactive, on 10/22/2008, -1/+9It's nice to see tech news on the front page.
- perhapsimcrazy, on 10/22/2008, -5/+11bps and Bps are two radically different things
8x different actually - adiyo011, on 10/22/2008, -0/+5My midget porn is safe for another day. No one better see this.
- PunkRockRalph, on 10/22/2008, -2/+6100G Bps?
- dacheetah, on 10/22/2008, -1/+4***** you, two of my friends died running crysis.
- phybere, on 10/22/2008, -0/+3In other words, it would be 20 years before we would have to worry about a faster encryption technology...
- CptCarnage, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3All your bytes all belong to us!
- pwr4, on 10/22/2008, -1/+3"The company, which traces its roots back to the Bellcore research operation for U.S. carriers,".
So, could there be a backdoor into the system just like the PSTN? - thunderclap, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1the pirates will get there first. Pirate bay FTW!
- FreakinRepublic, on 10/22/2008, -1/+2shutup and go buy a go-cart.......a flamin go-cart!
- alacarde, on 10/22/2008, -1/+2Did you even read jotate's comment, 2 comments up?
- FreakinRepublic, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1I bet that convo was funnier in your head....
- FreakinRepublic, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1well when it actually goes public and the tech is used on actual lines? in a matter of 2 months. but then again. thats gonna be a lot of serious tech that the |-|@x0r is gonna have to have to do this...doesnt seem like something that could be done with just a macbook...but who knows
- Ghiren, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1How exactly is this an improvement? Symmetric encryption is just a big, fancy lookup table. It takes a few microseconds to calculate the values in that table but the encryption itself is just a matter of mapping one block of bits to another. Once you do that, then data is data whether it's encrypted or not. The only thing that would matter then is the transmission speed. Granted, 100 Gbps is impressive but I fail to see how a new encryption technology would be relevant.
- offrdbandit, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1In the age of "I've got 100 Giga-Rams" I cant be to surprised by this.
- schokie, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Isn't it pretty difficult to eavesdrop on fiber as it is?
From my impression of the article all it does is seem to change the frequency or wavelength (really just two sides of the same coin) again. I don't see how it doesn't anything that interesting or spectacular.
It's an interesting article, but I don't see this being a major breakthrough of any sort. My money's still on end-to-end encryption, not link-to-link. - styromaniac, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1Better security... I thought highspeed at first. This doesn't impress me much. It's just hacker-free security. It's still good news though.
- arplayer2k, on 10/22/2008, -0/+1How long until some l337 hacker goes public saying he can hack it? Any guesses?
- pyrates, on 10/22/2008, -1/+1I bet the mpaa and riaa is just watering over this.
- RoboDonut, on 10/22/2008, -1/+1Your conversions are backward. It should be bits->bytes, not bytes->bits.
- Ratteler, on 10/22/2008, -5/+4Wow. Think of it. The government will be able to invade my privacy before I've even committed a thought crime.
- thetron, on 10/22/2008, -4/+2But there will be a backdoors for the feds of the world Cause they will demand it
Evil Intelligence Agency: "Hey we can't hunt for those evil terrorists anymore. We need to find these weapons of mass-distraction... I mean mass-destruction cause terrorist are making bombs and will kill your children"
Me: "I'm 24. Single and no kids"
Evil Intelligence Agency: "Then your childrens, children"
Me: "...."
Evil Intelligence Agency: "Boo... I see you looking at uporn" - cherwilco, on 10/22/2008, -4/+2really....huh
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/22/2008, -6/+1I just creamed my pants...
- RoboDonut, on 10/22/2008, -7/+212.5 gigabytes per second is still an incredibly large value.
That's almost 21 times as fast as USB 3.0. - chadillak, on 10/22/2008, -9/+4but will it run crysis?
- kidwithsword, on 10/21/2008, -11/+5And all the ISPs are too lazy to install it. It'll be 20 years before we get anything that fast, publicly.
- benod, on 10/22/2008, -11/+11B = 0.125b
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