From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 06:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Q.E.D.
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Interesting that IPG sent two copies of this to the list under different
nyms.  Must be a ploy to get around killfiles.

In list.cypherpunks, cypher@cyberstation.net writes:

>          In support of their position, some have pointed out that John
>          von Neumann, to paraphrase, stated that ARITHMETIC cannot
>          produce random numbers, a thesis which I agree with; but
>          where is that, in any way inconsistent with IPG's position on
>          EUREKA?  IPG has produced a system to generate software OTPs,
>          albeit it within limited but more than ample entropy, not
>          software random numbers.

I need quote no mre than this.  A PRNG can produce *only* pseudo-random
numbers, and nothing else.  No amount of handwaving will transform
pseudo-random numbers into anything else.  The IPG system produces a
seeded pseudo-random keystream, which is assuredly not a true one time
pad.

Another *PLONK*.
- -- 
           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy@scytale.com
DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division
PGP Public Key fingerprint =  31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54  13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6
                Key available from pubkey@scytale.com

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