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Article #3354Re: bitwise exclusive-or
From: les
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1987 23:00
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1987 23:00
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The easiest way to compromise an exclusive-or cryptographic scheme with courier-distributed key is to bribe the courier and make a copy. This cryptographic scheme is also very inefficient in that you have to transmit the same amount of data via courier as you do over the communication link. As for the "randomness" of radioactive decay counters, I recall that one was installed on M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory's TX-2 computer around 1959 and was used for serveral years before someone discovered through statistical analysis that it was decidedly non-random. The problem was traced to an obscure asymmetry in a critical circuit, as I recall.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!navajo!les From: les@navajo.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: bitwise exclusive-or Message-ID: <1338@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 18:00:20 EST Article-I.D.: navajo.1338 Posted: Sat Jan 24 18:00:20 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Jan-87 06:08:11 EST References: <434@ethz.UUCP> Reply-To: les@navajo.UUCP (Les Earnest) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11 Keywords: xor radioactive decay