Re: One Time Pads $5000|Cheap

[Harry Shapiro <habs@panix.com>]

a conscious being, Sameer wrote:
> 	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.

checksum might be solved by using multisession CD-ROMs. Cheaper hardware
might be found in the mini-disc format or digital audio tapes???

/hawk