Re: Physics-based security

mctaylor (mctaylor@mta.ca)
Wed, 01 Apr 1998 10:33:14 -0400

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At 05:31 PM 3/31/98 -0600, you wrote:
>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.

This reminds me of an article,
TI: Circuits that get chaos in sync
AU: Neff,-Joseph; Carroll,-Thomas-L
SO: Scientific-American. v. 269 Aug. '93 p. 120-2
PY: 1993

Using chaos for [secure] communication. It might be appopriate for today.

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