ArticlePloS one2012
Binary DNA nanostructures for data encryption.
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- Processing DNA Storage through Programmable Assembly in a Droplet-Based Fluidics System.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Multiplexed Nanopore-Based Nucleic Acid Sensing and Bacterial Identification Using DNA Dumbbell Nanoswitches.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2023Article
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- DNA Nanoswitch Barcodes for Multiplexed Biomarker Profiling.Nano letters · 2021Article
- Recent Advances in Noninvasive Biosensors for Forensics, Biometrics, and Cybersecurity.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- DNA steganography: hiding undetectable secret messages within the single nucleotide polymorphisms of a genome and detecting mutation-induced errors.Microbial cell factories · 2020Article
- Encrypted Oligonucleotide Arrays for Molecular Authentication.ACS combinatorial science · 2019Article
- Addressable configurations of DNA nanostructures for rewritable memory.Nucleic acids research · 2017Article
- DNA nanotechnology: new adventures for an old warhorse.Current opinion in chemical biology · 2015Review
- A DNA-based semantic fusion model for remote sensing data.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
We present a simple and secure system for encrypting and decrypting information using DNA self-assembly. Binary data is encoded in the geometry of DNA nanostructures with two distinct conformations. Removing or leaving out a single component reduces these structures to an encrypted solution of ssDNA, whereas adding back this missing "decryption key" causes the spontaneous formation of the message through self-assembly, enabling rapid read out via gel electrophoresis. Applications include authentication, secure messaging, and barcoding.
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