An entangled links mechanism to establish and maintain bipartite temporal intimacy between pairs of computers using an idempotent, reversible token method, which presents no observable external “change” until communication of information needs to occur between the computers and which maintains the potential for “bounded (or unbounded) reversibility” in case the intended information dispatched by a source computational entity is not captured or properly accepted by a destination computational entity. The mechanism enables distributed computers in a network to remain continuously aware of each other's presence; to communicate on a logically nearest neighbor basis in a secure and reliable manner in which packets passed over these links do not conflict with normal traffic or cause the available resources of the link to exceeded; and that atomicity, isolation, and “reversible durability” may be maintained for transactions when perturbations occur.