Re: Bruce Schneier Gets It Wrong
- From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:00:54 GMT
A few years ago there was a proposal that may be the same as
the one that this news story refers to: the idea was to use
a public source of random bits *which occur at a rate too
great for the enemy to capture a significant fraction of the
bit stream*, and use a predetermined sample of the bits as
the message key. The theory was that unless the enemy knew
in advance which random bits were sampled he'd be stuck.
One also wonders whether quasar signals are truly random..
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