Quantum Security

A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be used to keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton of Geneva in the upcoming election. Safe from folks who wish to overturn the peaceful, neutral nature of the country?

The encrypted election results will be sent to the capital on Oct. 21 via fiber-optic link. The photons will relay 62 miles from computer to receiver, and if attempts were made to intercept the light particles, they would not make their destination and the line operators would know somebody was attempting a hack.
"If anyone tries to even read the message it will explode like a soap bubble," said a physicist who helped develop the technology.

Conventional fiber-optic communications making it possible to eavesdrop on such lines simply by making a bend in the fiber and leaching off some of the light, but the secure quantum cryptography line will eliminate such problems.

This is the first public use of the technology, although U.S. government and corporate customers have purchased the equipment for use as far back as 2003. So when you question the next election results, just remember that Evil Dick is in his bunker safely downloading Japanese tentacle rape anime with the same technology that could restore some measure of honesty to the process.