Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: One time pads?
Message-ID: <7328@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 Feb 88 22:25:54 GMT
References: <4209@june.cs.washington.edu> <1988Feb15.151522.5094@utzoo.uucp> <7272@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4104@hoptoad.uucp> <7315@brl-smoke.ARPA> <858@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <858@astroatc.UUCP> jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) writes:
>How about using the message itself, in some form or another, as the pad.  ...

You've made the entire message security depend on just one key character;
trial and error will discover this in almost no time.