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Re: Holocomm (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barber)
Tue Mar 31 15:25:46 1998
From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:37:21 -0500 (EST)
I was asked to forward this coderpunks message to cryptography@c2.net.
Note that I don't belong to the latter and so I won't receive a
response unless you CC me directly.
See http://novaware.cps.softex.br/holocomm.htm for the original
announcement.
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William H. Geiger III forwards:
> 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.
[snip]
Based on past experience, it is probably crap. Gerck used to champion
his "meta-certificates" and their underlying notion of "intrinsic
certification" on the ssl-talk list (from which I unsub'd a few months
back). No coherent definitions of his notions were ever presented by
Gerck, but there were plenty of condescending sermons on why X.509 and
PGP certification mechanisms are inherently worthless (he was annoying
enough that one list member puckishly asked if his name was pronounced
with a soft 'G').
Perhaps you can join one of the discussion lists hosted by his "open"
Meta-Certificate Group (where, BTW, "open" means "entry" to the list
is "moderated" [by him], and only list members can post--I was kicked
off his mcg-talk list for repeated heresies and failure to acknowledge
the Supremacy of the Holy Dogma).
I would want to wait for something more than an "announcement" which,
as far as I can tell, is all that Gerck has ever produced.
-- Jeff
