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OTP security
I was thinking about the thread we had a week or so ago about OTPs. Say
I'm going to burn a CD of what I think are cryptographically random bits,
but somehow I end up with part of my stream being predictable (say every
16th bit). What does this do to the security of my CD?
_________ o s b o r n e @ g a t e w a y . g r u m m a n . c o m _________
Sam Jones <[email protected]> on the Nine Types of User:
Shaman - "Last week, when the moon was full, the clouds were thick, and
formahaut was above the horizon, I typed f77, and lo, it did compile."
Advantages: Gives insight into primative mythology.
Disadvantages: Few scons are anthropology majors.
Symptoms: Frequent questions about irrelavent objects.
Real Case: One user complained that all information on one of their disks
got erased (as Norton Utilities showed nothing but empty sectors, I
suspect nothing had ever been on it). Reasoning that the deleted
information went *somewhere*, they wouldn't shut up until the scon
checked four different disks for the missing information.