Re: Bruce Schneier Gets It Wrong

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
>A few years ago there was a proposal that may be the same as
>the one that this news story refers to: the idea was to use
>a public source of random bits *which occur at a rate too
>great for the enemy to capture a significant fraction of the
>bit stream*, and use a predetermined sample of the bits as
>the message key. The theory was that unless the enemy knew
>in advance which random bits were sampled he'd be stuck.

Yup! That's known as the bounded-storage model. That's what I
was referring to when I mentioned the bounded-storage model and
"hyper-encryption", but I did a poor job of explaining. Thanks
for the clear description.

>One also wonders whether quasar signals are truly random..

Yeah...
Received on Mon May 1 01:53:55 2006