Re: Time Triggered Decryption... a new need?

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 08/06/03 

Date: 6 Aug 2003 17:34:44 GMT

In article <5544fd12.0308060210.89375fe@posting.google.com>,
Alex <top.cat@tiscalinet.it> wrote:
:I need a functionality I could no foind in any industry-available
:software. I'd like to know if some of you knows of any Windows-based
:software that performs such a function.

:I need to encrypt a file, but without a password. The only trigger
:that will decrypt the file is time.

No, that is impossible on any current hardware that supports Windows.
I've posted about this subject before in this newsfroup: in
order to do what you want, you need tamper-proof hardware and
something such as a quantum-encrypted link to a trusted time source. 

-- 
   "Mathematics? I speak it like a native." -- Spike Milligan

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