| I think the "Rip Van Winkle cipher" was mentioned in Schneier's Applied | Cryptography. Also, I vaguely recall another news story (1999?) that | reported on an encryption technique that hypothesized a stream of random | bits generated by an orbiting satellite. Probably Rabin's work on beacons. It explored the results of assuming a universally available oracle providing the same stream of random bits to everyone. (If you think of the randomized Turing machine model as a TM plus an oracle giving that machine a random bit stream, you can think of this as a bunch of communicating TM's that get *the same* random bit stream.) -- Jerry
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