[46399] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Wed Jan 3 17:05:50 1996
To: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Wed, 03 Jan 1996 10:18:14 PST.)
<199601031815.KAA15424@netcom5.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 15:43:04 -0600
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
Bill Frantz writes:
>With a tightly focused beam (light is easy, I don't know about lower
>frequencies), you can prevent interception except by very obvious physical
>devices. (e.g. Someone in a cherry picker truck.) You may be able to
>avoid the need to encrypt the link (and all the paranoia about key
>management, advances in factoring etc. that that implies.)
Key management problems? With someone across the street? You gotta be
kidding. If you can't memorize the key (say with the S/Key key-to-
phrase algorithm) and walk it across the street, write it on the back
of an envelope, walk it over, re-key, and burn it.
