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More one-time pads cracked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Sun Jun 18 23:10:56 2000
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:58:33 -0400
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A recent message (http://cryptome.org/krw-comint.htm) says that NSA
cracked a Chinese one-time pad during the Korean War. Does anyone have
any technical details?
The same posting also implies that the German foreign ministry used a
one-time pad known as GEE; this was also cracked. I've not heard of
GEE, and as far as I knew the ministry used online machines. Does
anyone have any details on either this system or its solution?
--Steve Bellovin
