Re: Pseudo-one-time pads

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From: Steven Bellovin
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 01:59

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The key, so to speak, to this scheme is how you generate the pseudo-random
numbers.  When I need good random numbers, I run DES in output feedback
mode.  Of course, the security of this PRNG is exactly that of DES itself.

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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Pseudo-one-time pads
Message-ID: <1992Oct3.015908.12242@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:59:08 GMT
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