thoughts on one time pads
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Fri Jan 27 23:24:49 PST 2006
Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn at aei.mpg.de> writes:
>Melting the CD should work... but in practice that takes a specialized
"oven"
>(I seriously doubt my home oven gets hot enough), and is likely to produce
>toxic fumes, and leave behind a sticky mess (stuck to the surface of the
>specialized oven).
For no adequately explored reason I've tried various ways of physically
destroying CDs:
- Hammer on hard surface: Leaves lots of little fragments, generally still
stuck
together by the protective coating.
- Roasting over an open fire: Produces a Salvador Dali effect until they
catch
fire, then huge amounts of toxic smoke ("fulfilling our carbon tax quota"
was one comment) and equally toxic-looking residue.
- Propane torch: Melts them without producing combustion products.
- Skilsaw: Melts them together at the cutting point, rest undamaged.
- Axe: Like skilsaw but without the melting effect.
- Using the propane torch and hammer to try and drop-forge a crude double-
density CD: Messy.
Peter.
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