At 9:46 AM -0700 11/3/97, Peter D. Junger wrote:
: One time pads are under rated, in my view. Not only are they secure : forever, but the executive branch of the U.S. government says they are : exportable.
If your basis for saying that the U.S. government says that one time pads are exportable was the governments classification of a one time that I wrote in DOS assembly language using XOR to munge together the contents of two files, I don't think that you can rely on that authority since, at the same time, the government refused to rule that all one time pads using XOR are not subject to licensing under the EAR.
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