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- From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Subject: Re: A One-Time Way to Thwart Key Registration...
- Organization: A Saucerful of Secrets
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:38:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <WCS.92Nov5193819@rainier.ATT.COM>
- In-Reply-To: tedwards@eng.umd.edu's message of Wed, 4 Nov 1992 09:22:24 GMT
- Keywords: Registration, Combining One-Time-Pads with conventional encryption.
- References: <pcw.720808942@access.digex.com> <1992Nov04.003045.138463@watson.ibm.com>
- <1992Nov4.092224.6263@src.umd.edu>
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- One-time pads are much harder to ban than other encryption techniques,
- simply because any easily duplicated source of digital bits can be used.
- They can't ban the use of CD players, so they can't stop it.
-
- By themselves, book cyphers are not particularly secure, because they can be
- subjected to lots of pattern-matching, but even if you've registered your keys
- and your Pink Floyd CDs, *they've* got to check all the combinations,
- while you and your friend know to play the disk backwards from the end of
- "A Saucerful of Secrets" and feed it through DES to get the one-time pad.
-
- -----
- If this were sci.crypt.humor, I'd probably say something about Tipper Gore ...
- Meanwhile, if you've got to register your musical one-time-pads anyway,
- might as well give them the old scratchy vinyl records instead of the new CDs :-)
-
- --
- # Pray for peace; Bill
- # Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
- #
- # Congratulations! You've found the secret message!
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