Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic

7 Brajeshwar 4 5/22/2025, 2:46:07 PM spectrum.ieee.org ↗

Comments (4)

dragontamer · 4h ago
Terrible application but exciting tech.

It's a new form of information storage using very cheap substances. It's only a few dozen bytes for now but it's still cool to see fundamental research like this take place.

maxwellg · 4h ago
Cool tech. Don’t put a password in something that can be read by anyone with a scanner though.
GuinansEyebrows · 5h ago
Do we really need to generate more petrochemical waste so we can have neat little hardware tokens?
WorldPeas · 5h ago
the paper: https://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(25)00161-5?_re...

Also perhaps my reading comprehension has suffered over the past years, but it seems there is no challenge-response component to this? To my knowledge that's the only way this could be airtight.