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William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Tue, 31 Mar 98 14:36:30 -0600
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In <199803311916.OAA20372@jafar.issl.atl.hp.com>, on 03/31/98
at 02:16 PM, Jeff Barber <jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com> said:
>William H. Geiger III forwards:
>> HOLOCOMM: Secrecy by Delocalization
>> Campinas, March 30th, 1998 -- Dr. Ed Gerck announced today a new digital
>> communication and encoding system that uses quantum mechanical principles
>> to provide for data privacy and reliability, called Holocomm. As one of
>> its main characteristics, information encoded with Holocomm becomes fully
>> delocalized and can be read only with the proper decoding parameters. This
>> affords a holographic property: any part of the encoded information can be
>> used to recover the whole information to a degree.
>[snip]
>Based on past experience, it is probably crap. Gerck used to champion
>his "meta-certificates" and their underlying notion of "intrinsic
>certification" on the ssl-talk list (from which I unsub'd a few months
>back). No coherent definitions of his notions were ever presented by
>Gerck, but there were plenty of condescending sermons on why X.509 and
>PGP certification mechanisms are inherently worthless (he was annoying
>enough that one list member puckishly asked if his name was pronounced
>with a soft 'G').
>Perhaps you can join one of the discussion lists hosted by his "open"
>Meta-Certificate Group (where, BTW, "open" means "entry" to the list is
>"moderated" [by him], and only list members can post--I was kicked off
>his mcg-talk list for repeated heresies and failure to acknowledge the
>Supremacy of the Holy Dogma).
>I would want to wait for something more than an "announcement" which, as
>far as I can tell, is all that Gerck has ever produced.
Thanks for your reply,
I see that the situation I am in is not a new one. I am currently on the
e-carm list (mailing list centered on e-commerce issues) and Dr. Gerck is
pursuing the same course that you mention above on the ssl-talk list.
We have currently been going back and forth on PGP and it's use in a
E-comm environment. Unfortunately I have been unable to get him to present
any specific examples of real-world E-comm scenarios where PGP (OpenPGP)
fails to satisfy the needs of the parties involved.
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William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii
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Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice
PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail.
OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/esecure.html
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