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From: jmm@thoth15.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: turning a plaintext source into a good "random" key
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Date: 1 Mar 88 21:45:04 GMT
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Would removing all words of less than x characters significantly improve the
quality of one-time book pads?  And what would a useful value of x be?
(I would suggest x=5 at a minimum to eliminate all instances of 'this,' 'that,'
etc.  Would this be enough?)

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