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Re: webcam encryption beats quasar encryption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ivan Krstic)
Mon Apr 17 10:03:34 2006

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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:54:04 -0400
From: Ivan Krstic <krstic@fas.harvard.edu>
To: James Muir <jamuir@scs.carleton.ca>
Cc: "Heyman, Michael" <Michael.Heyman@sparta.com>,
	cryptography@metzdowd.com
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James Muir wrote:
> Also, I vaguely recall another news story (1999?) that
> reported on an encryption technique that hypothesized a stream of random
> bits generated by an orbiting satellite.

Likely Rabin's hyperencryption. I posted about it here a few years back:

 http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/15423

There is still active work being done on a "virtual satellite"
implementation.

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Ivan Krstic <krstic@fas.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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