Perry, fractions of what you say are true, but only small fractions, Stubborness and stupidity are twins - Save all those lives you were talking about a few days agao, show us how easy it is to break the system - and reqad the messages form others - you are spouting a bunch of supercilious crap and everyone else knows that, except maybe you, you are obviously too stupid to recognize that - please save all those lives at stake On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
IPG Sales writes: [garbage about what a one time pad is]
Er, you guys redefine the word "Oxygen" to mean "A brown liquid produced by fermenting barley and hops", too?
A one time pad crypto system requires that the length of the completely random key (not "practically random", not "nearly random") is equal to the length of the plaintext, and that which said key is used once and *only once*. Using a key to produce a pseudo-random sequence which is used to encrypt is *NOT* a one-time pad, and any claim that it is constitutes fraud, pure and simple, just like a claim that sugar water pills are antibiotics or that drops of red dye in a mixture of grain alchohol and water are French red wine.
this is also my answer to Mr. Metzger - do as you like, I have absolutely no ability to force you to do anything,
Of course not. However, I'll point out that you've annoyed me by peddling merchandise that can potentially harm your clients and bring a bad name to the field of cryptography. People do have the ability to go to your state's Attorney General, you know. Keep marketing this crap and believe me, someone will -- very possibly even me. I am almost sure that defrauding customers continues to be against the law everywhere in the United States.
Perry