[43281] in Cypherpunks
Re: Timed-release crypto and information economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Sat Nov 11 18:19:23 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: 11 Nov 1995 23:05:43 -0000
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
In article <199511091852.NAA01172@bioanalytical.com>,
Beavis B. Thoopit <beavis@bioanalytical.com> wrote:
> initialize buffer to '12#fjKL3_*(ASDdj1ll3_13 asdfasd-1-3!#!23'
> do forever /* actually until the plaintext spews out */
> sleep 1 unit
> for each element in the buffer
> buffer[ element ] = magictransform( buffer[ element ] )
But the "sleep one unit" part is vulnerable, unless (a) the whole device
is physically armored, which is probably not easier than armoring a
memory chip; or (b) the process -- the whole device, not just a clock --
is based on some basic principle of physics that has time in the equation.
--
Shields.
