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Re: OTP server..



On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Black Unicorn wrote:

> >How about WWW one time pad servers? You browse to your
> >favorite OTP server, which has a random number generator
> >running in the background. You tell it to give you a block
> >of X bytes, and mail it to persons 1, 2, 3, ... N.
> 
> I think you're trusting the server a GREAT deal.

Why is that?  The randomness of the data can be easily checked...
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