From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 19:23:06 PDT
To: Ulf.Moeller@hamburg.netsurf.de (Ulf Moeller)
Subject: Re: Elementrix Press Release
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Hello cypherpunks@toad.com
  and Ulf.Moeller@hamburg.netsurf.de (Ulf Moeller)

- From the press release:
> >    "Elementrix has found a logical way to generate non-algorithmic,
> >dynamically changing keys at two separate sites without transmitting
> >them on the line and without using parallel lines," said Dr. David Kahn,

Ulf Moeller responds:
> Obviously they have invented a telepathic key exchange scheme.

Actually, when I read the above I thought of Quantum Mechanics, 
but I would expect you'd need special hardware for that.
(In fact I'd expect you'd need special comms lines for that, but
certainly at least the equipment at the two ends.)

Still, who knows what surprises QM can provide?

In which case calling it a "telepathic key exchange scheme" might
be quite appropriate :-)


However, Occam's razor points to cluelessness.

Jiri
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