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Greg - Byrd (gregb@cup.portal.com) wrote:

: 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...

Uh, I think you're referring to "Clear and Present Danger", another of Tom's
*excellent* novels.  If you have the time, his latest, "The Sum of All Feaers"
is IMHO his best so far.

-- just another Tom Clancy fan!
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