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Re: thoughts on one time pads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Fri Jan 27 13:47:53 2006
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:33:02 +0000
From: Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
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Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> 1. How to insure physical security for the N years between when you
> exchange CDs and the use of a given chunk of keying material? The
> "single CD" system is "brittle" -- a single black-bag burglary to
> copy the CD, and poof, the adversary has all your keys for the next
> N years.
Hmm. can you selectively blank areas of CD-RW?
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