[starbase]

I'm working in Taiwan right now, and I'm going to get my resident visa tomorrow. I've worked in Taiwan before, but one thing they've added to the visa is now I must go down personally and give a thumb print.

Whoop dee doo, so low tech, but it guarantees I'm me. I couldn't help thinking how easy it is to secure ID's, and enforce immigration rules, and security rules, with low-to-no tech methods.

From this guy's name and his collaboration with a university in Hungary, I'm assuming he's originally Hungarian. That would make sense, a practical outsider seeing the powerful potential of simple processes, while we claim nothing can be secured without spending $10 billion dollars!

[gcraig]

It's a good idea to start writing software to deploy to servers / workstations that can leverage this super encryption technology. This is outstanding research -- an impressive combination of computer science and electronic engineering. Very impressive.

The pure randomness of electronic noise patterns would be orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than 128bit encryption is today. Check it out -- why don't we just encrypt all TCP/IP packets on all overseas routed fiber multiplexes - it would prevent terrorists in countries outside the encrypted networks from easily abusing the open internet to plan and execute attack missions.

[SteveMcKing]

Instead of transmitting anything, it sounds like he’s exploiting a physical property of the line to communicate a passkey. (?)

Still, a signal is a signal. I could wave across the street to my neighbor while on the telephone, or tell him to dial the initial call that way. Nobody tapping our telephone line would hear us waving.