RE: HOLOCOMM: Secrecy by Delocalization

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Wed, 01 Apr 98 18:06:22 -0600

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In <000701bd5d29$a0be24a0$03ae56d1@monica.oit.unc.edu>, on 03/31/98
   at 11:50 PM, "Simon Spero" <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> said:

>> This reads a whole lot like snake oil. I have seen several attempts to
>> use physics in an attempt to recreate cryptography, and generally
>> they are bogus. This is not to say that quantum crypto is nonsense,
>> but it is the exception.

>>From what I remember, doesn't quantum cryptography depend on the fact that
>intercepting or reading the message destroys it? is this a useful
>property for a non-repudiation oriented signature scheme :-)

> in a vain attempt to get back on topic, what form factors have people
>seen for the ibutton? One of my co-workers brought one back from Java
>one, and I'm going to have a play tomorrow-it doesn't look like it would
>work well with a low-profile reader (like those PCMCIA Smart card readers
>I was looking for last month). It's a shame they're crippled enough to
>make them legal in france.

Exactly what do you think you are doing Simon?

I find this "hijacking" of a thread to be poor netiquette in the extreme.
There was no need for this and earns you a one-way trip to my twit file.

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