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One could envision that the transportation of one-time pads as the only objects worth shipping between inhabited solar systems. Value per gram could be enormous
by njarboe 9y ago
One could envision that the transportation of one-time pads as the only objects worth shipping between inhabited solar systems. Value per gram could be enormous.
- int_19h 9y ago"Our main cargo is a one-time cryptographic pad. The source is Commercial Security at Sjandra Kei; the destination is the certificants' High colony. It was the usual arrangement: We're carrying a one-third xor of the pad. Independent shippers are carrying the others. At the destination, the three parts would be xor'd together. The result could supply a dozen worlds' crypto needs on the Net ..." - Vernor Vinge, "A Fire upon the Deep"
- njarboe 9y agoThanks for the ref. That's where I got it from. Couldn't remember if it was from "A Fire upon the Deep" or from an Ian Banks Culture series book.