Re: One-Time_Pad

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:29:26 GMT

On 5 Nov 2003 03:32:03 -0800, Richard Herring <news01@clupeid.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in message news:<qXXpb.8964$qh2.669@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
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>> I communicate with a lot of people using OTPs that are "woven" into
>> the return message before enciphering. The OTPs disappear forever
>> after being used once (duh) and most are not even written to the single
>> floppy, which resides in a booby-trapped hideyhole when not in use.
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> Doesn't that mean that your messages are doomed to becoming
> progressively ever shorter?

The messages are not saved anywhere, so they can't take up space. The
floppy holds the OS and the scripts and the current "keys" is all.
The keys are all of the same length.....

I really don't see where you got that notion, but perhaps if you would
explain it I might learn something. 

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