Re: The Key Vanishes: Scientist Outlines Unbreakable Code

Ray Dillinger wrote:

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my point exactly. one way or the other you can't TRUST the stream, therefore it is worthless.

Here's an interesting thought, though. There are all kinds of number generators already hanging in the sky, and some of them are fairly random, so this thing might actually have a prayer of working.

that, of course, requires that you trust THOSE. now it is highly unlikely (though not impossible) that the NSA thought of this, say, 10 years ago, and it would be an extremely costly operation to secretly modify those birds, but that only gives confidence, not trust. in addition, all the other problems remain, especially those of storage and synchronisation.