From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:56:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Timed-release crypto and information economics
Message-ID: <199511100540.VAA26681@ix6.ix.netcom.com>
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At 10:58 AM 11/9/95 -0500, "Beavis B. Thoopit" <beavis@bioanalytical.com> wrote:
>I have not yet convinced myself that a time-release information device
>is impossible....

Actually, if you don't mind only getting 3 seconds into the future,
moon-bounce is fairly simple and hard to tap on the uplink.
Unfortunately, most objects sufficiently far away to use this sort
of technique for practical applications are too small or distant to be 
good bounce targets, and some, like the Sun, are just not real cooperative.
For more expensive techniques, you could always launch a spaceship into a
cometary orbit, figuring out how long it'll take to come back.
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