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Re: A One-Time Way to Thwart Key Registration...

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From: Michael McClary
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:13
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In article <pcw.720808942@access.digex.com> pcw@access.digex.com (Peter Wayner) writes:
>
>>1) Can you trust the criminals to provide the keys to their data and to use
>>   those keys (and no others) when transmitting incriminating data?  If not,
>>   what's the point?
>
>Actually, my favorite solution to this criminal problem is to use
>a one-time pad. Then it is possible to come up with two keys. One
>that decrypts the conversation into a benign one and one that decrypts
>it into the real message.

This works if they demand the key after the message was sent.  It's a tad
harder if you have to register the key in advance of composing the message.
B-)
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From: mcclary@netcom.com (Michael McClary)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: A One-Time Way to Thwart Key Registration...
Keywords: one-time pad
Message-ID: <1992Nov11.011331.21831@netcom.com>
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:13:31 GMT
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