1995-07-22 - Re: Government Mandated Keys

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From: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-22 14:41:30 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 07:41:30 PDT

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From: dan@milliways.org  (Dan Bailey)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 07:41:30 PDT
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Government Mandated Keys
Message-ID: <199507221441.AA32224@ibm.net>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:39:07 -0700 you wrote:

>At 11:02 AM 7/19/95 PDT, rick hoselton wrote:
>>I want to register the 1-bit key of "1".  I expect to 
>>send about half my message bits encrypted, the rest will be clear-text.
>
>Oh, go ahead, register 0 also.  You'll probably want to switch keys
>occasionally during sessions.

Actually, why don't we just register our favorite geometric constant,
pi?  Assuming it's non-repeating, and non-terminating, you're
guaranteed that whatever key you end up using will be somewhere in pi.
						Dan
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