I thought this might be of interest to cypherpunkers. The full title is: Common Randomness in Information Theory and Cryptography - Pt. I: Secret Sharing by Rupolph Ahlswede and Imre Csiszar in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory V39 #4 It talks about generating a common random key at two terminals without letting an eavesdropper obtain info about the key. ************************************************** * Allen J. Baum tel. (408)974-3385 * * Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 305-3B * * Cupertino, CA 95014 baum@apple.com * **************************************************