From: terry.smith@canrem.com (Terry Smith)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 05:21:39 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Writable CD-ROMS as one-t
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          Trestrab@gvsu.edu wrote 
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>Is there anything inherently superior about CD-ROMs as a one-time
>pad ? The size differential vis a vis Bernouli drive cartridges,
>floptical disk drives, or just plain old floppy disks is kind of a
>mixed blessing, and still doesn't answer the major question with
>one-time pads - secure dissemination.
>
>          Jeff
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If you record - say - 5 of them and send them by 5 seperate couriers and
xor them together to send the message, your enemy has to compromise etc
5 people.


                    Terry Smith - XANTH sysop - 1:259/510
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