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> If he used a one-time-pad (Vernam cipher) and kept the key on his person he'd be in a far better position, but he's apparently too stupid to do this. How do y
by doe88 14y ago
> If he used a one-time-pad (Vernam cipher) and kept the key on his person he'd be in a far better position, but he's apparently too stupid to do this. How do you use a one-time pad?
A 1.4 GB key... Yeahhhhhh, very practical.
edit: and btw I hope you're also confident on the quality of your RNG to output 1.4 GB of random bytes.
- baddox 14y agoI don't get it. You seem to be inferring that it's impractical to store a couple of gigabytes on your person.
- rdl 14y agoIt is difficult to store a couple of gigabytes, withstand a potentially intrusive search incident to arrest or intelligence action (i.e. on the Gulfstream, wearing a hood...) without that data being found or destroyed or removed from your control, and then widely disseminate that information while held in detention, potentially incommunicado, etc.
- DanBC 14y agoI've changed my mind. The problem isn't with storing that 1.4 GB, it's with distributing it quickly to very many people. Something much smaller is just a copy-pastable string that'll find its way into Wikipedia edit summaries or onto t-shirts or whatever.