RE: HOLOCOMM: Secrecy by Delocalization

Simon Spero (ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:50:00 -0500

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> 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.

Simon

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