Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: One time pads?
Message-ID: <790@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 04:43:16 GMT
References: <4209@june.cs.washington.edu> <1988Feb15.151522.5094@utzoo.uucp> <575@gtx.com>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <575@gtx.com> al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
<It seems to me that potential one-time pads are broadcast every day in
<the form of newspapers, magazines, sports scores, lottery numbers,
<....   All you need to do is agree on some algorithm for using them.
<generate your pad from that.  All you need is a source of bits (more
<random the better) commonly observable by sender and recipient.  Is
<broadcast data of this kind often used to help with key distribution?

One major pitfall here is that different areas receive different editions
of newspapers and magazines.

What has just occurred to *me* is to wonder what would happen if you decided
to use the infamous "numbers stations" on SW as the key? 
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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