Everyone here is perfectly capable of reading my posts and deciding for themselves--why the need for the grand pronouncement? Now that you've told everyone how to think, why not use your filter file and get it over with. These elaborate, drawn-out "thinking man's" variations on the "you poopy head" theme are a complete waste of time. Who would have ever imagined that someone so intelligent and thoughtful could be so petty. ~Faustine. On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 03:17 PM, Faustine wrote:

Los Alamos develops quantum crypto system By Chappell Brown Electrical Engineering Times (08/23/01, 1:06 p.m. EST)

LOS ALAMOS, N.M.  Engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed what they believe is a practical quantum cryptographic system. The system features two portable units that can encrypt and decrypt information transmitted via photons. Experiments have shown that

Faustine is becoming the new Jim Choate, regurgitating old topics, lecturing us on what she/he/it thinks we don't know, and forwarding items which were stale years ago.

Clue: This list is not just a dumping ground for anything with the word "crypto" in it.

Metaclue: get a clue.

ObFaustineWhine/Predictable: "Some of us are Important Researchers, being paid to sit in our cubicles and surf the Net. Just because we learned about this list last month does not mean we don't have the _right_ to forward everything we learn about crypto to this list!"

--Tim May