To counter these hackers, the centre is pursuing a variety of approaches to the problem, such as developing software to detect intruders. Another involves improved cryptography, or the special coding of information. "It's an important building block for security systems," Sevinc . . .
To counter these hackers, the centre is pursuing a variety of approaches to the problem, such as developing software to detect intruders. Another involves improved cryptography, or the special coding of information. "It's an important building block for security systems," Sevinc explains. "The code should be practically unbreakable, but of course you never know."

The only way to find if a new protection system is secure is test it out in the public domain. "If someone manages to get through, we look at how they did it and we try to improve on our original idea," said Sevinc.

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