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You can do this already - just take two flash drives and mirror the same random data to each one. Just make sure you never use the same part of the random data
by TheLoneWolfling 13y ago
You can do this already - just take two flash drives and mirror the same random data to each one. Just make sure you never use the same part of the random data twice.
Of course, I have to ask: why bother? If you're giving them a flash drive anyways, just exchange public keys. Also safer, as if someone loses/etc. a public key it's no big deal whereas if someone loses the OTP then all of the data you sent is trivially decryptable.
- heeton 13y agoYea techies can do it but it's not simple/easy to use. I couldn't give my mother a key to use. I suppose something about the pure security of a OTP is enticing. Public keys can be broken, it's just not feasible at the moment. I don't know enough here, but it seems like past data sent via public key will eventually be trivial to decrypt? Losing a OTP is equivalent to losing a private key, not much changes there. I suppose if your partner was "coerced" then a OTP exposes both sides of the transaction, whereas knowing their private key would only help decrypt your messages to them.