17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com> This is quite sensible given that in the Zone universe, you may have no idea how much computing power your enemies have, so no cryptography that is only computationally secure can really be trusted. I asked Vernor about this one a few months ago. He got lucky on this one. He thought that some advances in theory might render the whole idea ridiculous. It was not the case that he was considering relative computational power, which works much better in context, especially given the hints of some computational power beyond Turing machines. A great one-liner about debating public-key, in any case. Eric