RE: Crypto

From: kents@trajecta.com
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 09:50:54 PST


This post and and the jb "essentially a one-time pad" notion, rather
'universal one-time pad' notion are interesting...

Rabin said the math to prove his discovery is 'hard'. The one-time pad
solution has been proven secure, under the assumption pads are not
compromised. Is it really that hard to prove that a time-stamped stream of
non-repeating random bits is the same as a universal one-time pad and that
said pad cannot be compromised?

As an aside, note that this method does not allow Bob and Alice to store
messages in a provably unbreakable format, just exchange them.

kas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Bone [mailto:jbone@jump.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:29 AM
> To: fork@xent.com
> Subject: Crypto
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> Hmph.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/science/20CODE.html?pagewanted=all
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> jb
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