[103883] in Cypherpunks
one-time pad
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill payne)
Mon Oct 5 19:41:22 1998
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:06:53 -0600
From: bill payne <billp@nmol.com>
To: j orlin grabbe <kalliste@aci.net>, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov,
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Orlin http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ and, of
course,http://www.aci.net/kalliste/bw1.htm
I got a big kick reading http://www.jya.com/tristrata.htm
Especially,
While a one-time pad is, in fact, theoretically unbreakable when
used properly, the details of using it properly make it entirely
unusable in any modern commercial or military setting.
And
This kind of system was used for the U.S.-Soviet teletype "hot line"
and it is occasionally used for paper ciphers and spies, but that's
it.
Codes and Cryptography by Dominic Welsh references on page 126 Sandia's
Gus Simmons as the source of the above.
(And if users can exchange these keys, why can't they just
exchange the messages?)
I think the reason is that the users want to exchange keys for messages
to be sent at a later time, perhaps electronically.
But we have to stick to the position.
Does the algorithm pass the Black and White test or not? No buts.
Let's all hope for settlement of this UNFORTUNATE matter before it
gets WORSE.
bill
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