[Clips] Your secrets are safe with quasar encryption

Justin justin-cypherpunks at soze.net
Wed Mar 29 18:03:52 PST 2006


On 2006-03-29T17:22:07-0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> --- begin forwarded text
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>   Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:19:01 -0500
>   To: Philodox Clips List <clips at philodox.com>
>   From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
>   Subject: [Clips] Your secrets are safe with quasar encryption
> 
>   <http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8913&print=true>
> 
>   The researchers believe quasars could make an ideal cryptographic tool
>   because the strength and frequency of the radio pulses they emit is
>   impossible to predict. "Quasar-based cryptography is based on a physical
>   fact that such a space signal is random and has a very broad frequency
>   spectrum," Umeno told New Scientist.
>   Weblinks

I think a better source of random bits would be the brainwaves of these
idiot "researchers."


>   	*	Quasar Encryption patent
> 	http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20050242987&OS=20050242987&RS=20050242987
> 
>   	*	Quasar Authentication patent
> 	http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20030145202&OS=20030145202&RS=20030145202

The USPTO is right up there with the worst TLAs in stifling progress and
legitimate activities.

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II. Disillusionment.   V. Punishment of the Innocent.
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