Re: What is a "perfect secret" ?
From: Daniele Raffo (login.invalid_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 09/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:32:13 +0200
Gustavo L. Fabro wrote:
>Too bad this isn't really practical, but, yes, could be used on
>some cases; e.g. a double sided DVD with 9.4GB of random data could
>be delivered from Alice to Bob hand-to-hand for 100% safe communication
>on an insecure channel later. Am I right? ;-)
>
>
Yes, as far as 1) the data is *truly* random and 2) you don't reuse the
data.
-- Daniele Raffo [First name].[Last name][AT]inria.fr
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