Yes, it’s Friday afternoon and it’s been a long week. I can offer up no other excuse for what I’m about to do to you, all I can suggest is that if you’re currently experiencing a particularly productive period at work you’d be advised not to read this blog post.

Still here? Good.

At one point yesterday one website occupied the screens of no fewer than nine journalists across Pro and our neighbours at MacUser (sorry guys). It’s called Fantastic Contraption and, I really can’t emphasise this warning enough, it’s more addictive than crack.

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Not a question I ever thought I would find myself asking, nor to be fair finding myself intrigued by the answer. Not even if we got into the hypothetical territory of quantum encryption where those wearing the white coats and bemused expressions will happily tell you that every possible encryption key can be tested simultaneously, resulting in encryption, and of course decryption, before you can stifle the yawn.

However, perhaps it is because it is a slow news day or I the fact that I need to get something geeky into my system following the mind-numbing experience that is shopping at Tesco, but a press release from Protegrity Corporation and Teradata managed to get me considering the speed of encryption question.

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