On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Black Unicorn wrote:
doug@eng.auburn.edu wrote:
How about WWW one time pad servers? You browse to your favorite OTP server, which has a random number generator running in the background. You tell it to give you a block of X bytes, and mail it to persons 1, 2, 3, ... N. [...] Thoughts?
I think you're trusting the server a GREAT deal.
A small addition to the protocol whereby the recipient gives the random data the once-over with a personal IDEA key would be sufficient to eliminate any doubts about the server. - Andy +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Brown Internet <asb@nexor.co.uk> Telephone +44 115 952 0585 | | PGP (2048/9611055D): 69 AA EF 72 80 7A 63 3A C0 1F 9F 66 64 02 4C 88 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+