17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
In article <9507121550.AA10682@snark.imsi.com> you write:
I've heard that standard 1920s-1950s one time pad generation techniques involved telling lots of secretaries in the code section to type numbers at random onto carbon paper forms. No joke.
In the German book `Kryptologie' by F.L. Bauer there is a reprint of such a Soviet "random number sheet". -- Ulf Möller * um@ulf.mali.sub.org * 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de PGP key fingerprint: B6 4F 97 28 8F C0 54 C3 A6 10 02 2F B9 31 78 14 "When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!"