Re: One Time Pad Implementations?

From: J. (nordland37@hotmail.com)
Date: 03/26/03 

From: nordland37@hotmail.com (J.)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 18:01:27 GMT

On 25 Mar 2003 18:01:40 -0800, krosen2015@hotmail.com (David Friedman) wrote:

>Just a helpful note:
>
>You have to make sure that you are genearting the shared key (or "pad"
>whatever you want to call it) totally *randomly*. Otherwise, you no longer
>have a *perfect* encryption.

He never will, as perfect random is not possible.

In any case it need only be sufficiently random to be
unpredictable, and only ever used once. Totally random key
is hardly necssary, even if it were obtainable. 

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Posted by J.