Re: Proposed noise-based encryption method

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From: Greg - Byrd
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 00:05

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What you have described is the classic "one time pad".  With advances
in mass storage techniques this is becoming progressively more attractive.
I recall a description in some novel (I think Clancy's "Patriot Games") of
a secure military manpack radio into which one inserts a card containing
a one-time pad.  Without a matching pad all you hear is white noise.
In the book a Bad Guy throws away the disk with the pad, leaving the
Good Guys in the jungles of Columbia listening to white noise...

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From: gregb@cup.portal.com (Greg - Byrd)
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Subject: Re: Proposed noise-based encryption method
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