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An Unbreakable Code?

6 pointsby AppleXabout 16 years ago

3 comments

demallienabout 16 years ago
It's just a one time pad with a novel key distribution system, where instead of directly sharing the key, you share the information necessary to extract the key from a random stream. In addition to not introucing any new security advantages, it brings in a potential weakness - what if the source of random numbers isn't as random as the designer thinks? Someone could potentially retrieve the key without having access to the key extraction information...
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smanekabout 16 years ago
This is kind of silly ...<p>It's basically just a one-time-pad, with a magical shared pad that can't be intercepted. They just assume away all the problems with OTPs.
wlievensabout 16 years ago
I encourage the author to read Cryptonomicon :-)