Re: One Time Pads $5000|Cheap

[Sameer <sameer@uclink.berkeley.edu>]

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> 	I'm not sure about the format of writable CD-ROMs; but with other
> write-only media the default state of a bit is X and you write by changing
> some of the bits to Y.  This being the case, you could conceivably zap part
> of the disk by writting them as all Ys.  This would require everyone to have
> a CD-ROM writer not just a reader.  Another problem is even if the media
> itself has this capability the standard writer devices are going to want to
> write block checksums etc.; which is probably going to fail.
> 

	Right, but as the price drops more people will be able to
afford one? I would sure be willing to spend a few hundred on a CD-ROM
writer (that's how much the readers cost now, right?) in order to
make/destroy OTPs. (And by the time the price *does* go down that far,
I should have the money to buy it, hopefully.)
	On checksums-- I wouldn't know how the devices work, but that
looks like a task for a talented cypherpunks hardware hacker.


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