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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Cheap more-or-less one-time-pads
Message-ID: <184@vianet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-May-87 14:51:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: vianet.184
Posted: Wed May 13 14:51:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 07:18:28 EDT
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In article <573@faline.bellcore.com>, karn@faline.UUCP writes:
> [the "key space" that is used for identifying a CD in the CD one-time-pad
>  idea is too small for it be secure.  A cracker could find CD identity.]

  There are ways of expanding the id field so that a large, sparse field
is used.

  But there still exists a problem of how THAT equivalence of CD_id :: CD 
information is transmitted....  It's sort of like the key distribution
problem for DES.