From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:40:30 -0700 (PDT)
To: IPG Sales <ipgsales@cyberstation.net>
Subject: Re: Q.E.D.
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, IPG Sales wrote:

> 
>          Some of you have sardonically written to say "Nihil Est
>          Demonstrandum," N.E.D. because an OTP must be derived from a
>          hardware source, that is, it must be a pure random sequence
>          of limitless entropy. Accordingly, they unbashfully assert
>          that an OTP generated by a computer program is not possible.
> 
>          How do they know that? Does the Bible tell them so, or the
>          Koran, or do they get it from the Torah? Why not cite the
>          source of their certainty instead of advancing an unsupported
>          proposition.  I do not mean to be rude, but excuse me, what
>          scientific proof can they offer for that immovable avowal?
>          There is no scientific proof whatsoever, none at all, except
>          for the words and their steadfast, and maybe self serving,
>          postulate.  Accordingly, obviously it is they, not us, who are
>          the ones that have "Nihil Est Demonstrandum," in this matter.
>          There is not one scintilla of sustainable evidence to support
>          such a doctrine.
> 

Any algorithmic generation (which all software is) is predictable given
the algorithm.  If its not hardware based, it can be guessed.  This is
altogether obvious.  tough luck.

 --Deviant
Blood flows down one leg and up the other.