[math-fun] Sandia storing information in encrypted DNA

FYI -- What happens when we're all "end2end" encrypted? Also, a whole new meaning for "junk" (DNA, that is.) https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/dna_storage/ Sandia storing information securely in DNA Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories bioengineer at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, is exploring a better, more permanent method for ***encrypting*** and storing sensitive data: DNA. Compared to digital and analog information storage, DNA is more compact and durable and never becomes obsolete. Readable DNA was extracted from the 600,000-year-old remains of a horse found in the Yukon. ...