The Internet is an insecure way to send data, but encrypting slows transmissions down. Karen Trovato of Putnam Valley, New York is patenting a way of making Net traffic secure without encryption (US 2003/69981).
Sensitive information on a website is broken down into a jumble of tiny part-pages, none of which is any use on its own. Each part-page is posted at a different Web address, so in order to download anything useful, a PC must hop between addresses in a set time sequence.
Only the secret hop sequence need be encrypted. Decoding it lets the PC seamlessly merge…
