OTP server..
Ed Carp [khijol Sysadmin]
erc at khijol.intele.net
Thu Jul 13 17:45:41 PDT 1995
On Fri, 14 Jul 1995, Black Unicorn 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.
>
> I think you're trusting the server a GREAT deal.
Why is that? The randomness of the data can be easily checked...
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Q. What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton?
A. Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.
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