From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:31:00 -0800 (PST)
To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Subject: [noise] Re: Montgolfiering, the Hot Air Balloon of Cryptography
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> Fie on the small minds that cackle at my brilliance! As a Mensa member and
> founder of the Society for Superintelligent Former NSA Employees, I chortle
> at the baseness of callow criticisms by those doubters and dilletantous
> denigrators of virtual one-time pads and PRNGs (perfect random number
> generators).
> 
> Montgolfiering. What is it, you ask? It is demonstrably a new paradigm in
> the evolution of homo sapiens (Parry Messger excepted) toward Shannon's
> dream of a one-time pad needing only a single, easily memorizable number as
> a seed. I have heard only silence when I challenged the so-called
> superbrains of this latargial list to try to determine which number I am
> using as the seed of my system. If you are such great smarty pants, far

     Put the dictionary down, and back away slowly...


Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com