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Re: Delayed self-encrypting messages
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> > Paul Schauble <[email protected]> writes:
> > Can I do this with crypto technology? Can I send someone a message, and
> > possible a program, such that the message can only be decrypted after a
> > predetermined date?
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> I think you would need a trusted time server that sends out signed
> timestamps... you can't trust other time sources, including WWV (just
> broadcast a signal locally to swamp the signal).
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Use the GPS systems. They are synced to the NITS (or whatever they call it
now) and have time stamps coded in them. As to swamping out a sat or two,
yeah could be done but they would have to be mighty high above you in
a airplane or blimp or something...