From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 14:21:03 +0800
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
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On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> At 10:49 AM 8/26/96 -0600, Rick Smith wrote:
> >One question that I haven't found answered in my perusals of the site is a
> >definitive statement of the cryptographic technology used by the Soviets.
> 
> I haven't revisited the site to check, but I distinctly remember a
> statement to the effect that the system was a one time pad system. 
> However, due to a mistake somewhere in the chain, some of the one time pads
> were used twice.  The resulting two time pad system gave NSA the wedge they
> needed to recover what they have.

I seem to recall an exhibit on Verona including a proported Soviet OTP at
the National Cryptologic Museum in MD.

> 
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