Re: Spooks (was: a trial balloon ...)

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From: jac54
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 20:07

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In article <1992Oct30.110910.5044@infodev.cam.ac.uk> rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson) writes:
>hal@cco.caltech.edu (Hal Finney) writes:
>
>>                                         Possession of unregistered
>> random number tables could be incriminating evidence.
>
>In Britain, it already is; you can get 20 years for possession of a
>one-time pad.
>
>(Or so an employee of GCHQ said in public here in Cambridge earlier this
>month)
>
>Ross


	How do you prove it's a one-time pad?  If the use of a book
	and an algorithm is sufficient to generate a key as long as
	the message (If you remember the description I posted about
	ten days ago.), then, is having a good memory for numbers also
	incriminating?

	Alec Chambers

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