25 Sep
2017
25 Sep
'17
9:59 p.m.
There are plenty of good online references for the issues raised in this thread. I'll give two for each, a more-or-less standard reference & a Citizendium article that I wrote much of & that may be easier reading. Of course Wikipedia has both as well, and various crypto texts have deeper detail. Random numbers: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4086.txt http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Random_number_generator One-time pads: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/otp-faq/ http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/One-time_pad