[68234] in Cypherpunks
Re: Q.E.D.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Deviant)
Thu Oct 17 23:57:18 1996
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 03:33:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
To: IPG Sales <ipgsales@cyberstation.net>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961016194535.21030B-100000@citrine.cyberstation.net>
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, IPG Sales wrote:
>
> Some of you have sardonically written to say "Nihil Est
> Demonstrandum," N.E.D. because an OTP must be derived from a
> hardware source, that is, it must be a pure random sequence
> of limitless entropy. Accordingly, they unbashfully assert
> that an OTP generated by a computer program is not possible.
>
> How do they know that? Does the Bible tell them so, or the
> Koran, or do they get it from the Torah? Why not cite the
> source of their certainty instead of advancing an unsupported
> proposition. I do not mean to be rude, but excuse me, what
> scientific proof can they offer for that immovable avowal?
> There is no scientific proof whatsoever, none at all, except
> for the words and their steadfast, and maybe self serving,
> postulate. Accordingly, obviously it is they, not us, who are
> the ones that have "Nihil Est Demonstrandum," in this matter.
> There is not one scintilla of sustainable evidence to support
> such a doctrine.
>
Any algorithmic generation (which all software is) is predictable given
the algorithm. If its not hardware based, it can be guessed. This is
altogether obvious. tough luck.
--Deviant
Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
