Re: One-Time_Pad

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 11/06/03 

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:28:59 GMT

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:41:27 GMT, Brad Murray <bjm-nntp@vsca.ca> wrote:
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> Richard Herring <news01@clupeid.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> RH> However you slice it, the total size of plaintext exchanged cannot
> RH> exceed the size of the original key.
>
> My guess is that he's not really using a one-time pad but rather is
> simply using steganography to do per-message key changes for some
> symmetric ciper, likely homegrown. The key is probably of fixed
> length.

I think that's right. But it sure is a one-time-pad according to a
cryptography book I read when I was a wee lad.

And the only people that MIGHT be able to read our messages wouldn't have
to bother: They'd just pick us up, give us drugs, and find out anything
they wanted to know....

I'll save a whole thread for you, give you the program, and you STILL would
not be able to decipher one sentence. Got $10,000 to bet on that. 

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