transmitting it securely is exactly the same problem as transmitting the original data securely
That's what the quantum communication channel is for. You can transmit the OTP keys under controlled circumstances, and watch for eavesdropping, and then at any later time of your choice, you can encrypt and broadcast as insecurely as you like the data or message to the other OTP key holder.
That's what I meant by "less mathematical and more physical." I should have said something about secure quantum communication channels, which are not so much about encryption as they are about provably faultless tamper-evidence. Then they can be used to generate the one "mathematical" encryption method that has been proven unbreakable: random one-time pads.
No, mathematical encryption today relies on the rate at which certain problems get harder to solve with increasing size. A non-polynomial scaling problem is, for all practical purposes, an impossible problem to solve when made bigger. That's why 4096 bit encryption will never be subject to a distributed crack competition (on classical computers). It's just so much harder than 64 bit. A quantum computer which could reduce such problems to polynomial time could solve not only 4096-bit, but 65536-bit and 4294967296-bit encryption in human-scale amounts of time (even if it's several years), instead of the millions of universe ages that Moore's Law tracking classical machines would require.
The availability of quantum computers for encryption cracking will just result in a change to another type of cryptography that does not rely on the unproven assumption that factorizing large integers is NP hard. These future encryption methods may be less mathematical and more physical.
And the results of the 2004 election are in, with sixty-seven trillion votes for Bush, and forty-leven gazillion for Mosley-Braun. Experts were stunned by the 50000000000% voter turnout.
If you were right about the Pentagon only being for killing, I suppose we should initiate another bureaucracy, the "Department of Temporary Non-lethal Deprivation of Resources" to manage a good fraction of the Defense Department's current programs.
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War isn't about killing people. It's about coercing policy changes. Up until now, flat out killing people has been a very effective way of achieving that. You would be foolish to think that they sit around at the Pentagon thinking about killing people for killing's sake, though. They think about how to most effectively change the disposition of their opponents. Sometimes killing is involved.
The way to do this is to use the CPAN modules Test::Harness, CharacterSets::Unicode, CharacterSets::Kanji, CharacterSets::UTF8, WideChars::ASCII, WideChars::Unicode, WideChars::UTF8, PerlCore::NonASCII, PerlCore::FuturePerl, Term::XTermLikeWindow, PerlCore::Language::Scripting, Standard::Keyboard::Generate::Analogs::ASCII, and of course, Add::Unicode::Support::Into::Our::Scripting::Langu ages::That::Does::Indeed::Work
I didn't say that MS should be able to uninstall anything just because they feel like it, I specifically said because of the trademark infringement and attempted extortion that these programs are designed for, they are just as legitimate a target for removal as "viruses" are.
I spent a good deal of time last weekend disinfecting my cousin's computer from all sorts of disgusting junk. Yes, I had to apply about fifteen "critical updates" but I also had to remove (or attempt to remove) about ten different apps that appear to have the sole purpose of hijacking the browser to go to dozens of popup havens. These programs:
Often had official sounding names in the add/remove programs list like "MS Explorer update Q3395"
Popped up five or six windows every time a link was clicked in IE, and inevitably one of the popups was for a service or program that claimed to "stop those annoying popups."
For these reasons (trademark infringement, extortion), it would be completely within Microsoft's rights (and perhaps duties) to check for and remove such software as part of the normal update process.
If they don't do this already, Microsoft should set up a room full of computers with people just dredging the sleazier parts of the web and installing whatever the latest malicious spawn of Bonzi Buddy and Gator, etc. happen to be. They would have to have non-MS IP numbers, because that would be too easy to check for in one's malware.
Of course, I had a talk with my cousin about clicking "OK" to install every little thing that comes down the pipe, but it felt like trying to talk about genital warts or something.
In legal jargon, "effective" means acting or serving to cause the said effect. A speed limit sign effectively controls the speed of traffic on the streets.
The way autorun operates on these discs serves to cause the effect of a CD one can not copy. It does not have to effectively prevent circumvention, which in the colloquial sense of the word, anyone would consider to be part of what "effective" copy protection is in the fist place.
That's the rules; I don't make them. I think what he did is illegal under the DMCA, and I think it's a perfect example of how the DMCA is overly expansive and should be thoroughly overhauled to better reflect the reality of current and likely future technologies.
Speaking as someone who probably holds more views in common with you than you suspect, I can say that laws of probability are not the issue. It is that the laws of physics and detailed paths of chemical reactions are not known in sufficient detail to determine what probabilities even apply in the spontaneous evolution of life. In other words, there is ZERO proof that life can not arise spontaneously, and there is a nonzero probability that some driven physio-chemical self organization process which bootstraps into life exists. I hope to see it discovered in my lifetime, even though I lament the fact that it will likely be trumpeted falsely as a "disproof" of the existence of God.
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That's what the quantum communication channel is for. You can transmit the OTP keys under controlled circumstances, and watch for eavesdropping, and then at any later time of your choice, you can encrypt and broadcast as insecurely as you like the data or message to the other OTP key holder.
That's what I meant by "less mathematical and more physical." I should have said something about secure quantum communication channels, which are not so much about encryption as they are about provably faultless tamper-evidence. Then they can be used to generate the one "mathematical" encryption method that has been proven unbreakable: random one-time pads.
The availability of quantum computers for encryption cracking will just result in a change to another type of cryptography that does not rely on the unproven assumption that factorizing large integers is NP hard. These future encryption methods may be less mathematical and more physical.
Since hackers and confused people are an overlapping segment of the population, there is some room for go playing.
Where I live, most of the light is coming from the ground these days.
He did:
I'm not advocating piracy in any way; I just think that it's really cool and everybody should do it.
Levels of rotational energy are quantum levels.
And the results of the 2004 election are in, with sixty-seven trillion votes for Bush, and forty-leven gazillion for Mosley-Braun. Experts were stunned by the 50000000000% voter turnout.
This is a unique and original idea! Have you considered patenting it?
If you were right about the Pentagon only being for killing, I suppose we should initiate another bureaucracy, the "Department of Temporary Non-lethal Deprivation of Resources" to manage a good fraction of the Defense Department's current programs.
It's because tall people are better.
War isn't about killing people. It's about coercing policy changes. Up until now, flat out killing people has been a very effective way of achieving that. You would be foolish to think that they sit around at the Pentagon thinking about killing people for killing's sake, though. They think about how to most effectively change the disposition of their opponents. Sometimes killing is involved.
Yes, don't expect a closed format like ogg to be available cross-platform!
No, he's just confusing "patched" with "bitched about on Slashdot."
"Mirror" posts are not really mirrors, they are mod magnets.
Where, oh where are my mod points....
You, sir, are remarkably ignorant.
The way to do this is to use the CPAN modules Test::Harness, CharacterSets::Unicode, CharacterSets::Kanji, CharacterSets::UTF8, WideChars::ASCII, WideChars::Unicode, WideChars::UTF8, PerlCore::NonASCII, PerlCore::FuturePerl, Term::XTermLikeWindow, PerlCore::Language::Scripting, Standard::Keyboard::Generate::Analogs::ASCII, and of course, Add::Unicode::Support::Into::Our::Scripting::Langu ages::That::Does::Indeed::Work
Well, according to internetrafficreport, everything is fine. However, Europe has been relocated to Africa.
My opinion is that Quake 3 engine does a better job of being used in a WWII game such as Return To Castle Wolfenstein and Wolf: E.T.
May I ask why?
I didn't say that MS should be able to uninstall anything just because they feel like it, I specifically said because of the trademark infringement and attempted extortion that these programs are designed for, they are just as legitimate a target for removal as "viruses" are.
- Often had official sounding names in the add/remove programs list like "MS Explorer update Q3395"
- Popped up five or six windows every time a link was clicked in IE, and inevitably one of the popups was for a service or program that claimed to "stop those annoying popups."
For these reasons (trademark infringement, extortion), it would be completely within Microsoft's rights (and perhaps duties) to check for and remove such software as part of the normal update process.If they don't do this already, Microsoft should set up a room full of computers with people just dredging the sleazier parts of the web and installing whatever the latest malicious spawn of Bonzi Buddy and Gator, etc. happen to be. They would have to have non-MS IP numbers, because that would be too easy to check for in one's malware.
Of course, I had a talk with my cousin about clicking "OK" to install every little thing that comes down the pipe, but it felt like trying to talk about genital warts or something.
The way autorun operates on these discs serves to cause the effect of a CD one can not copy. It does not have to effectively prevent circumvention, which in the colloquial sense of the word, anyone would consider to be part of what "effective" copy protection is in the fist place.
That's the rules; I don't make them. I think what he did is illegal under the DMCA, and I think it's a perfect example of how the DMCA is overly expansive and should be thoroughly overhauled to better reflect the reality of current and likely future technologies.
Speaking as someone who probably holds more views in common with you than you suspect, I can say that laws of probability are not the issue. It is that the laws of physics and detailed paths of chemical reactions are not known in sufficient detail to determine what probabilities even apply in the spontaneous evolution of life. In other words, there is ZERO proof that life can not arise spontaneously, and there is a nonzero probability that some driven physio-chemical self organization process which bootstraps into life exists. I hope to see it discovered in my lifetime, even though I lament the fact that it will likely be trumpeted falsely as a "disproof" of the existence of God.