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Re: Writable CD-ROMS as o
[email protected] wrote
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> If you record - say - 5 of them and send them by 5 seperate couriers
> and xor them together to send the message, your enemy has to
> compromise etc 5 people.
>
>Or your enemy has to penetrate your site or your correspondent's site,
>and copy five CD-ROMs instead of one.
Yes - but that should be *HARD* to do...
>CD-ROMs have one advantage: there's a lot of data. But that's not
>all good, because you *really* want to destroy any keying material
>you've ever used.
Yes - but it is a writable CD rom - Write over the data when it's used.
>I've heard People Who Know say that in the spook and government world,
>one-time pads are falling out of favor --- because their practical
>security isn't as good as a really high quality conventional cipher with
>a dynamically-negotiated session key. I repeat: *practical* security;
>your enemy isn't going to hit you or bribe you with a copy of Shannon's
>theorems.
Ok but one time pads DONE RIGHT (an d that's the optimum term - are VERY
STRONG
Terry Smith - XANTH sysop - 1:259/510
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