Re: Transparency is impossible

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 21:06:11 MDT

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Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: "John Clark" <jonkc@worldnet.att.net>
> >No, it is not a fact. Quantum Encryption, which has actually been used in
> >a commercial setting not just in the lab, is as secure as the laws of
> >physics.
>
> *That* is news to me. Do you know where I can find out more about this
> quantum encryption?

A simple one-time pad is as "unbreakable" as quantum encryption, but you
can still fish the original paper out of the garbage.

See Bruce Schneier, "Why Cryptography Is Harder Than It Looks".
http://www.counterpane.com/whycrypto.html

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       sentience@pobox.com      Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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