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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: What is it really like?
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Date: Mon, 26-May-86 19:01:16 EDT
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> Would it be so difficult, however, to manufacture a large number of different
> CD ROMS?... [using write-once disks]

Don't forget that you also have to distribute them to the stations in the
field, making sure that each station has a disk for each communications link
it's got.  You also have to synchronize changes to new disks, e.g. because
one was captured, to occur simultaneously among all members of a particular
communications link.

This is not a disadvantage of the one-time-CD-ROM scheme, since this sort
of thing has to be done for any cryptosystem, but it does reduce the
advantages of the one-time scheme.
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