Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-15 Thread David Brin
Clever. I will talk the DoD into implementing it with Google Tap! From: KZK evil.ke...@gmail.com To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thu, June 14, 2012 8:31:47 PM Subject: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-15 Thread David Hobby
On 6/15/2012 2:37 AM, KZK wrote: But Eve, who is listening in to the publicly available noise, does not know which resistor was connected at each end and cannot work it out either because the laws of thermodynamics prevent the extraction of this information from this kind of signal. So why

Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-15 Thread KZK
On 6/15/2012 2:37 AM, KZK wrote: But Eve, who is listening in to the publicly available noise, does not know which resistor was connected at each end and cannot work it out either because the laws of thermodynamics prevent the extraction of this information from this kind of signal. So why

Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-15 Thread David Hobby
On 6/15/2012 2:14 PM, KZK wrote: Eve cuts the wire between Alice and Bob (AB line) and insert her own node that connects to Alice (AE line) and Bob (BE Line) individually. Alice can't tell the difference between the AB line or the AE Line and sets her resisters. Eve sets her resisters connected

Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-15 Thread KZK
David Hobby Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:35:51 -0700: Between ALL communications channels, even the public ones? That's asking rather a lot of Eve. I think there are a lot of people who would use a cryptographic system that required an additional open channel, confident that they could somehow route

Re: Brin: Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Thermodynamics

2012-06-14 Thread KZK
The idea is straightforward. Alice wants to send Bob a message via an ordinary wire. At each end of the wire, there are two different resistors that correspond to a 0 or 1. Alice encodes her message by connecting these two resistors to the wire in the required sequence. Bob, on the other hand,