From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 07:59:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NSA's Venona Intercepts
Message-ID: <199608262018.NAA02361@netcom8.netcom.com>
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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.


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