[22971] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: webcam encryption beats quasar encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ivan Krstic)
Mon Apr 17 10:03:34 2006
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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
In-Reply-To: <442C36EE.5050509@scs.carleton.ca>
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.
--
Ivan Krstic <krstic@fas.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com