Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-22 Thread hal
is transmitting, we can't make her forget it. I'll keep working on it. Thanks again to John and the others who have offered helpful criticism and suggestions. Hal Finney

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-21 Thread hal
, the risk to Eve of gaining any specific amount of information can therefore be made arbitrarily large. Hal

Re: What's Wrong With Content Protection

2001-01-21 Thread hal
to understand and believe this as well. Don't try to use the legal system yourself to force this outcome. Hal Finney

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-19 Thread hal
s the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Hal

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-18 Thread hal
um physics to get rid of the shared randomness is nice. I'm not sure that the approach outlined by Hal can be made to work. It is still in the early stages of development. I appreciate the many helpful comments. Hal

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-18 Thread hal
hoton in some manner that preserved its polarization, and then to re-emit it. These could be primed to pass only a single photon. I'm sure both of these ideas have serious practical difficulties but perhaps something along these lines could be made to work. Hal

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-17 Thread hal
hould have been. This changes the conclusions of my message, so I will post another version with corrected math. Hal

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-16 Thread hal
. Eve would not know how to orient her measuring apparatus and so would likely perturb the photon. The effect would largely be to introduce noise into the output, which should be detectable by the participants at some level. Hal

Re: The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-16 Thread hal
nt message I will analyze how much information Eve obtains by doing measurements immediately before and after a target cryptographer has rotated the photon on each circulation. Hal

The Shining Cryptographers Net

2001-01-15 Thread hal
, the chance of an attacker guessing right on every transformation can be reduced to a low level. Hal Finney

Re: Weak user keys, strong servers.

2000-07-22 Thread hal
or not. Hal