new idea for random number generation

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Wed Sep 27 00:20:03 PDT 2017



> On Sep 26, 2017, at 10:29 PM, alan at clueserver.org wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2017, at 11:14 AM, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> I've mentioned this before in regards to OTP, and I think Jim just
>> mentioned it -
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>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
> 
> The only commercially viable one-time pad is found in the feminine hygiene
> section of your local supermarket.
> 

Yeah, venona decrypts were from days when encrypts 
were made with pencil, paper, radio. But spy agencies fuck
everything up. I don't imagine OTP are used by spooks at 
all anymore ... or maybe i'm wrong?

> perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py

Not a fan of pythons indentation-based syntax eh?  ;)


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