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Re: NSA, Random Number Generation, Soviet Codes, Prohibition of Crypto
In article <[email protected]> you write:
>I've heard that standard 1920s-1950s one time pad generation
>techniques involved telling lots of secretaries in the code section to
>type numbers at random onto carbon paper forms. No joke.
In the German book `Kryptologie' by F.L. Bauer there is a reprint of
such a Soviet "random number sheet".
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