If you had bothered to read the article, you would have noticed that the work described is being done by the government. Last I checked, Los Alamos National Lab was still a government-run lab...
I don't see what the fuss is about taking this far enough to be able to establish a link to a satellite. You want end-to-end security, not end-to-satellite and satellite-to-end!
Suppose Alice and Bob want to generate a shared key, and Alice is in NY, and Bob is in CA, and the satellite is over the US. Alice and the satellite generate a key A, and Bob and the satellite generate a key B. The satellite then sends Bob (A XOR B), which Bob uses to compute A. Assuming Bob and Alice can trust the satellite, they can communicate securely with key A.
This technique is also useful for securely rekeying a satellite (e.g. changing the key HBO uses to encrypt their transmissions every month).
I got this info from a presentation given by one of the guys from LANL a couple days ago...
The most important aspect of a firearm is that it is one of the great equalizers...
This is one of the biggest pieces of BS used to justify gun ownership. I am no less "equal" to you if neither of us have guns than I am if both of us have guns. And frankly, I would rather live in a society where I don't have to carry a lethal weapon in order to be safe.
Besides, what about children? Should they be packing semi-automatic weapons so that they can be "equal" to the guy who decides to shoot up their preschool? And what about the the blind, or people with other disabilities? Firearms hardly qualify as the great equalizer for them.
For 95% of the US, firearms are an anachronism, but I'm afraid it'll take us another 100 years to realize it, if ever...
As a graduate student in graphics at UC Berkeley, and I would love to be able to recommend installing some cheap Linux boxes to do 3D work in our lab. But until the graphics support reaches the same level as SGI or Windows (i.e. accelerated 3D in a window) I don't feel that Linux is useful enough for us.
But I can't justify pretending to believe something I don't just to get some comradery. It seems cheap and hollow.
In that case, I recommend that you check out a Unitarian church. I've been to a few ceremonies with my GF who is nominally Unitarian (I'm atheist), and they seem to offer a lot of what you're looking for without being preachy or expecting you to adhere to arbitrary doctrine.
I'm pretty sure they got my email address from the bug fix I sent in back around 5.1 or so. It could also be from some of the software I've developed, but I seriously doubt that has attracted their attention.
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If you had bothered to read the article, you would have noticed that the work described is being done by the government. Last I checked, Los Alamos National Lab was still a government-run lab...
Suppose Alice and Bob want to generate a shared key, and Alice is in NY, and Bob is in CA, and the satellite is over the US. Alice and the satellite generate a key A, and Bob and the satellite generate a key B. The satellite then sends Bob (A XOR B), which Bob uses to compute A. Assuming Bob and Alice can trust the satellite, they can communicate securely with key A.
This technique is also useful for securely rekeying a satellite (e.g. changing the key HBO uses to encrypt their transmissions every month).
I got this info from a presentation given by one of the guys from LANL a couple days ago...
This is one of the biggest pieces of BS used to justify gun ownership. I am no less "equal" to you if neither of us have guns than I am if both of us have guns. And frankly, I would rather live in a society where I don't have to carry a lethal weapon in order to be safe.
Besides, what about children? Should they be packing semi-automatic weapons so that they can be "equal" to the guy who decides to shoot up their preschool? And what about the the blind, or people with other disabilities? Firearms hardly qualify as the great equalizer for them.
For 95% of the US, firearms are an anachronism, but I'm afraid it'll take us another 100 years to realize it, if ever...
As a graduate student in graphics at UC Berkeley, and I would love to be able to recommend installing some cheap Linux boxes to do 3D work in our lab. But until the graphics support reaches the same level as SGI or Windows (i.e. accelerated 3D in a window) I don't feel that Linux is useful enough for us.
In that case, I recommend that you check out a Unitarian church. I've been to a few ceremonies with my GF who is nominally Unitarian (I'm atheist), and they seem to offer a lot of what you're looking for without being preachy or expecting you to adhere to arbitrary doctrine.
I'm pretty sure they got my email address from the bug fix I sent in back around 5.1 or so. It could also be from some of the software I've developed, but I seriously doubt that has attracted their attention.