On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:49 AM 8/26/96 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
One question that I haven't found answered in my perusals of the site is a definitive statement of the cryptographic technology used by the Soviets.
I haven't revisited the site to check, but I distinctly remember a statement to the effect that the system was a one time pad system. However, due to a mistake somewhere in the chain, some of the one time pads were used twice. The resulting two time pad system gave NSA the wedge they needed to recover what they have.
I seem to recall an exhibit on Verona including a proported Soviet OTP at the National Cryptologic Museum in MD.
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