[Spooks] one time pad and repeated messages

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Or when the Japanese had to use old keylists for their enigma machines to talk to bypassed island garrisons......Mark K1RMC


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From: Tom Sevart <tmsevart at gmail.com>
To: spooks <spooks at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Feb 2, 2014 11:58 am
Subject: Re: [Spooks] one time pad and repeated messages


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On 02/02/2014 04:34, EI0DB wrote:

> The other gotcha iscreating pads with non-random numbers. The art of
> one-time-pad generation is another big subject cost the world's spooks
> big bucks.

And the other other gotcha is reusing one time pads, like the Russians 
did which led to the NSA's Venona decrypts of agent communications.

-- 
Tom Sevart N2UHC
St. Paul, KS
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