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An Unbreakable Code?
- smanek 18y agoThis is kind of silly ... It's basically just a one-time-pad, with a magical shared pad that can't be intercepted. They just assume away all the problems with OTPs.
- demallien 18y agoIt's just a one time pad with a novel key distribution system, where instead of directly sharing the key, you share the information necessary to extract the key from a random stream. In addition to not introucing any new security advantages, it brings in a potential weakness - what if the source of random numbers isn't as random as the designer thinks? Someone could potentially retrieve the key without having access to the key extraction information...
- bf 18y agoIt's slightly better than a one time pad, in that a finite-length key (namely, a time offset) could transmit an infinite-length message. Of course, the assumptions required are still completely unrealistic.
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- wlievens 18y agoI encourage the author to read Cryptonomicon :-)