-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Jiri Baum wrote:
Still, who knows what surprises QM can provide?
In which case calling it a "telepathic key exchange scheme" might be quite appropriate :-)
I don't think that's what was meant. After all, using telepathy as a secure channel, you'd still need a comm protocol.
Not really, you can use the raw bitstream as OTP. (Which is probably not enough to warrant calling it a protocol, maybe protocolette :-)
The last time I checked protocols and algorithms are one and the same. Since elementrix doesn't use algorithms, we shouldn't defame them by claiming they've invented secure telepathy.
Well, you could claim that what they are using is not an algorithm since it won't run on a Turing machine. At that stage you probably toss the Church-Turing thesis out the window and get yourself a proper definition of "algorithm".
Now wouldn't that be interesting to patent?
Gives a new meaning to the phrase "subliminal channels" :-)
(One wonders if elementrix employees occasionally indulge in guilty glances at Knuth and Sedgewick without their bosses' knowledge.)
Well, wouldn't the bosses give them mind-scans to avoid this possibility? Sorry, I forgot, Psi Corps doesn't allow that. Jiri - -- <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au> <jiri@melb.dialix.oz.au> PGP 463A14D5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMIMgDixV6mvvBgf5AQEvnQP/dBeNDgbaz23cMhii0yWzDhnAcL+VLmJw x2x85A35IlSvblSmb647lYj/Bl1k6zpKZkpz+MKrtvh6psy3lTl/tWe2DXzXcoRk nVwJC5vWCRyVTDMIhRlIoUkbx4QnKVDy1awHWYhIJ4Ssbj6c3G+XPrdvH8LxcSSb BhxJL63Cp74= =MDDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----