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Re: One-Time Pads as Attack Method

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat May 10 13:20:49 1997

Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 09:45:25 -0700
To: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@upaya.multiverse.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Reply-To: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)

>The problem that someone might plant a message and a one-time-pad on
>your machine makes for a good spy story; I would be more worried about
>someone claiming that I had illegal software on my machine, since they
>can always come up with a one-time-pad that will decode some file that
>I do have on my machine (if they have access to it) and have the
>``decoded'' text be a copyrighted program for which I do not have a
>license.

All the more reason to use a good disk encryption program to keep private
as muc of you disk as possible (under CryptDisk/PGPDisk its everything but
the System Folder).

--Steve


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