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1996-10-23 - Re: OTP

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From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: “gweissman@spyrus.com>
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Message ID: <846082072.4988.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-10-23 14:59:58 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 07:59:58 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 07:59:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: "gweissman@spyrus.com>
Subject: Re: OTP
Message-ID: <846082072.4988.0@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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> 
> Ooops : there is no possible attack at all with a properly
> implmented OTP cryptosystem.  There is no keyspace to "brute-force"
> search.  Any message is as likely as any other.  Check Schneier.

Yeah, someone else pointed this out to me, it was just a slip of the 
keyboard, I think I started of talking about an OTP and slipped into 
stream cipher mode... 


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