Aloha!
Sean McGrath wrote:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn8913print=true
Your secrets are safe with quasar encryption
* 16:00 29 March 2006
* NewScientist.com news service
* Will Knight
Intergalactic radio signals from quasars could emerge as an exotic but
| I think the Rip Van Winkle cipher was mentioned in Schneier's Applied
| Cryptography. 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.
Probably Rabin's work on beacons.