[46200] in Cypherpunks
Re: Is this as insecure... (really "Fax crypto")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Sun Dec 31 20:11:50 1995
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 16:18:33 -0800
From: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Shamir did a talk on fax crypto in May, 1994. There is no reason that this
can't be completely secure, the overlays could be one-time pads. Bill
Sommerfeld posted a description of the technique to the list after he went
to a presentation on the technique, I'll forward it to anybody that needs
a copy.
Using the same overlay multiple times, though, would make it completely
insecure. I can't believe that they are recommending that that could
be a possibility.
thad
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