The Foresight Institute is an organization promoting planning for the impact of future technologies, particularly nanotech. They have a new set of design guidelines to prevent potential nanotech catastrophes at http://www.foresight.org/guidelines/current.html. One of the points involves encryption: > 1. Any self-replicating device which has sufficient onboard > information to describe its own manufacture should encrypt it such > that any replication error will randomize its blueprint. Anyone have any idea what this means? How would crypto be used here?
