Re: Is there any strong hand cipher?
From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:20:44 +0100
John Smith writes:
> I read in David Kahn's book that in the 50s and 60s the Soviets
> generated OTPs by having clerks type "randomly" on keyboards. Kahn's
> book states that the Soviets felt that these keyboard generated OTPs
> were "random enough."
They were right. VENONA was broken by the reuse of pads, not by any
lack of randomness in them, IIRC.
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