Internet Privacy Guaranteed
Blake Coverett
blake at bcdev.com
Wed Feb 21 06:40:32 PST 1996
>Err... okay, maybe I don't have this figured out. Still sounds like OTPs,
>and someone selling random data at $15 a pop per month. Having multiple
>floppies mailed to me monthly, with all the inherent difficulties, sounds
>like a lot more work than public-key management. My bozometer is pegged.
It gets even worse by my reading of this thread. They send out the first lot
of pseudo-OTP via some *nominally* secure channel, but then the send you
the subsequent months via the Internet. (Presumably encrypted with one of
your existing keys.)
This adds up to a system that isn't event a pseudo-OPT. It's just a conventional
rotor-based cryptosystem, with an unevaluated implementation. Break one message
containing a batch of new keys and the entire system is defeated forever.
-Blake
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