At 19:05 2/19/96, IPG Sales wrote:

Perhaps so, but our system does employ a true hardware generated OTP, and operates similiar to what you describe - however, the important differernce is that we use a smal;l OTP to generate a larger OTP, like stringing the cable across the Golden Gate narrows.

Somebody please hand the guy a textbook on information theory. The entropy of your "larger OTP" *can not* be greater than the entropy of your original OTP. You are suspending Golden Gate Bridge by a string. Anybody using it does so at their peril. Side note: why do these snake oil salesmen tend to have such horrible spelling? Let me guess. Because they design their software with the same care they use to compose their posts? -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.