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

From: Bill Emerson (no_at_one.home)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: 24 Jul 2004 02:56:52 GMT

In sci.crypt, Gregory G Rose wrote:
> In article <2md5q1FlrrnrU2@uni-berlin.de>, Bill Emerson <no@one.home> wrote:
>>In sci.crypt, Gregory G Rose wrote:
>>> Wow. Like Paul, I normally try to stay out of
>>> this kind of discussion, but this last is just
>>> too much. You accuse *us* (Paul, Tom, me, others)
>>> of thinking this is a head game? What we've been
>>> trying to tell you is that OTPs, while the
>>> ultimate in theoretical "head game" security, are
>>> useless in practice.
>>
>>And you are quite wrong.
>
> Proof by assertion?
>

No. I am willing to prove what I say in the real world.

>>Why don't you do something *real* like intercepting my
>>communications and then deciphering them. Prove what you
>>are saying is true.
>
> There is a simple reason why I don't. Because I
> don't give a sh*t.

Money talks, bull*** walks.

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Bill