NSA, Random Number Generation, Soviet Codes, Prohibition of Crypto

[Ulf Moeller]

In article <9507121550.AA10682 at snark.imsi.com> you write:

>I've heard that standard 1920s-1950s one time pad generation
>techniques involved telling lots of secretaries in the code section to
>type numbers at random onto carbon paper forms. No joke.

In the German book `Kryptologie' by F.L. Bauer there is a reprint of
such a Soviet "random number sheet".
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Ulf Möller * um at ulf.mali.sub.org * 3umoelle at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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