From: um@ulf.mali.sub.org (Ulf Moeller)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 07:59:01 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NSA, Random Number Generation, Soviet Codes, Prohibition of Crypto
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In article <9507121550.AA10682@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 Mller * um@ulf.mali.sub.org * 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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