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News
Chaos protects networks in Athens (Nov 17)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/9/11/11 A team of European scientists has shown that chaos can be used to
encrypt and send data in a commercial fibre-optic network. Although
chaotic communication has been demonstrated in the lab before, this is
first time that it is has been made to work with a real fibre network
(Nature 437 343).