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William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Tue, 31 Mar 98 09:10:42 -0600
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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.
The encoded information can be static, as in a certificate, e-mail
message, contract, etc, or dynamic, as in a real-time communication
channel.
Holocomm is neither cryptography nor steganography, even though both share
properties with it. It is not cryptography because the encoded information
cannot be localized. It is not steganography because it does not depend
on another information to hide the original information, while it can use
another information such as an image, if so desired. It can provide strong
security as with cryptography while keeping the data hidden as with
steganography. Moreover, since the information is delocalized but not
merged, no part of it can be removed without removing the message itself
while any part of it can reproduce the message to a degree, which has no
parallel in cryptography or steganography.
"Holocomm fully delocalizes information, while strongly encoding it.
Delocalization means that all information syntax is free from the
limitations of locality, while all information semantics is transformed
into a global property. Thus, delocalization is not a loss of identity
but an omnipresence of it, for each part of the message. A Holocomm
message is a macro quantum mechanical wave packet, where information is
not stored in specific places, like characters in a plaintext, bits in an
encrypted message, bytes in a data packet or as a time-dependent signal in
a modulated-carrier wave system, but is effectively distributed as an
indivisible property of the wave packet as a whole. Then, documents become
truly holographic in the sense that a rather small part of a document can
be verified to afford origin authentication of the entire document. Even
data integrity authentication for the whole document can be derived from a
small sample, to a degree. Holocomm documents can also be smaller in size
than the original documents." explains Dr. Gerck.
Regarding its strong encoding techniques, Holocomm can be a carrier for
any known encryption system such as RSA, DES, Idea, Blowfish, RC4, etc. or
for its own secure quantum mixing and encoding modes. "Holocomm can
interoperate with known, tried and secure encryption techniques while also
offering new avenues for strong data privacy that can become vitally
crucial, for example, if integer factorization suddenly becomes viable for
large key sizes. Further, as world e-commerce needs are in opposition to
export controlled cryptography, Holocomm offers secure and open
alternatives -- now." declares Dr. Gerck.
Holocomm allows several problems to be solved, that have either no
solution or only partial and difficult solutions. For example:
- - diverse encodings and media: Holocomm can produce messages with any
transport encoding, such as Base-64, ASCII, binary, etc. and for any media
such as e-mail, WWW, voice, film, etc.
- - resistant transport: MIME or ASCII-armor may not be necessary in the
majority of cases for e-mail because text which is privacy encoded and/or
signed in a Holocomm system can be recovered to a large degree even when
mangled by mail transport systems. Localized errors can be compensated
because the transported information is delocalized.
- - digital signature recovery: today's digital signature systems need an
integral and errorless copy of both the document and the signature. With
Holocomm, even rather small parts of a document can allow the document's
origin authentication to be verified with negligible error, also providing
for data integrity authentication of the whole document, to a degree.
This recuperates a 3D-world property legally known as a "holograph" (not
to be confused with hologram) and which was entirely lost for digital
signatures.
- - digital signature legislation: by allowing the usual legal concept of a
holograph to be applied for digital signatures, Holocomm reduces the risk
of document repudiation, tampering, etc. Since the data and its signature
become securely intermingled, the signature is not localized and cannot
even be separated from the document --
making the digitally signed document akin to a document wholly in the
handwriting of the author.
- - strong transparency: A Holocomm message may be strongly encrypted and
yet such encryption may be undetectable within Complexity Theory limits,
when Holocomm works in privacy-transparent mode.
- - resistant encryption: a Holocomm message that uses its own quantum
encoding modes can resist tampering attempts that may try to change it or
render it unreadable or unusable.
- - Intrinsic Certification: Since quantum packets can be added without
loosing their identity, Holocomm allows independent secure multichannel
messages to be transported in the same certificate or message, offering
new tools to implement the Intrinsic Certification method being developed
by the MCG -- Meta-Certificate Group. Dr. Gerck has granted the MCG
worldwide rights to apply Holocomm in the MCG developments and APIs.
- - mandatory key-escrow: Holocomm can use Intrinsic Certification to allow
independency from CAs and TTPs, thus being legally independent of any
key-escrow or key-control legislation that may be imposed on CAs and TTPs.
- - privacy encumbering: Holocomm allows its privacy modes to be
undetectable within Complexity Theory limits, thus rendering useless any
attempt to encumber privacy. The same applies for certification
encumbering, by allowing undetectable Intrinsic Certification.
- - rights management: Holocomm allows a non-invasive, indelible and secure
stamp to be applied to copyrighted materials such as software, ..gif or
.jpg images, text, film, music, video, voice, etc.
- - e-commerce: by providing for strong document non-repudiation, secure
signatures, privacy and independent secure multichannels, Holocomm closely
resembles traditional legal documents used in age-old commerce, which can
be hand annotated and signed by several parties, all independently
targeting any desired portion of one document, without any need to expose
the document to a notary (eg, a CA or TTP) in order to achieve security.
- - product and environmental security: Holocomm can securely store complex
chemical fingerprints of products (such as crude oil) and allow undeniable
product tracing and identification. Thus,
commercial and environmental aspects of different chemicals and products
can be securely certified to combat tampering, contraband, unidentified
spillovers and environmental damage. The same can be applied to complex
animal or plant biometric-data and other identity-
or capability-related data.
- - cross-delocalized data: Holocomm allows for a set of data to be
delocalized in different places and not just in one place, i.e.
cross-delocalized data. This can be useful to implement secure fail-safe
procedures because not all data have to be accessible all the time.
- - export free: Holocomm was entirely developed to be export-free for any
degree of privacy and security. It can be freely exported and re-exported
to any country in the world. Holocomm does not depend on any other
patented system.
Holocomm can be applied now to worldwide security applications.
Companies, individuals and investors are invited to contact Dr. Ed Gerck
at egerck@novaware.cps.softex.br in order to discuss proposals:
"The opportunity is now open for any interested party to lead or
participate in commercial efforts that may deploy Holocomm in
applications that can profit from origin authentication, data
integrity authentication, privacy, security, non-repudiation
properties, encryption transparency, resistant encryption,
product security, etc."
The Holocomm system can and will be fully disclosed to the public, as its
security rests on freely chosen encoding/decoding parameters with strong
computing penalties to prevent parameter-space search, not on method
secrecy. The need to follow patent legislation procedures clearly prevents
a full disclosure at this moment but a technical summary is provided
below.
REFERENCES:
Dr. rer. nat. Ed Gerck is the CTO of Novaware
(http://novaware.cps.softex.br), Coordinator of the Internet open group
MCG (http://www.mcg.org.br) that has representatives from 25 countries and
visiting Professor at UNICAMP, Brazil.
The Holocomm system is derived as a combination of free-standing and/or
bound-state wave packets in a large quantum mechanical system that works
as a thermal bath, which provides for the necessary state mixing and
strongly penalizes parameter-space search. Holocomm depends on concepts
published by the author more than 15 years ago [1] [2], when the question
of how to represent quantum states in a fully analytical form was shown to
be solvable with high accuracy also as a function of a reduced
representation of the quantum mechanical equation itself and not only as a
function of a reduced representation of the wave functions for the full
equation.
[1] E. Gerck et. al., "Solution of the Schroedinger equation for bound
states in closed form", Phys. Rev. A, vol. 26, p. 662, 1982.
[2] E. Gerck et. al., "Scaling laws for Rydberg atoms in magnetic fields",
Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.50, p.324, 1983.
This document is hereby released for public information, which does not
constitute a right to use such information for any other purpose or for a
product. Republication is allowed with copyright and author citation. The
Holocomm system, and the "Holocomm" name are Copyright (c) Ed Gerck, 1998.
All rights reserved worldwide. Patent
applications reserved worldwide.
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