Re: OTP's [was: Re: Help: Randomizing a List of Numbers]

From: Bill Emerson (no_at_one.home)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: 22 Jul 2004 17:05:24 GMT

In sci.crypt, Tom St Denis wrote:
> Bill Emerson wrote:
>
>

[....]

> I strongly suggest you curb your fascination with OTPs. They might seem
> "all cool and all" but they have zero practical value. You might as well
> start in on learning what people have done instead [e.g. public key crypto
> for instance].
>
> Tom

Almost everything else I have read tells me that your advice above is
stupid and ignorant.

Given this, and the fact that you have ignored several reasonable
questions of mine, even when repeated, and the rest of your stupid posts
on this thread, you have just gone to the bottom of my credibility list.

The Doom crack put you on my blocked senders list.

Thanks for your help, though. Some of it was valuable.

Good-bye.

Bill

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