[Spooks] Some more thoughts on One Time Pads

[Flavio Cardone]

Hello -

I actually worked with one-time pads, being a former diplomat. They were
usually printed on a special paper that dissolved in water right away,
the idea being that you can just put them in your mouth to destroy them.
Acetate is difficult to eat :-D I know only one person who ate them but
we ended up making fun of him for doing so (a regular flight had to land
in Cuba for an emergency and he thought the Cubans would violate the
diplomatic pouch and we basically thought he had seen too many spy films).

They were printed all in the same office with a normal computer printer
(although I do remember some typewritten ones - with typewriters that
had a special 'secret' font) and then distributed all over the world to
those who would need them.

If you want to make a super-tiny microscopic sheet you need a very good
analog camera and extremely low film, 25 ASA or below. Just print an A4
sheet of pads (12-point letters) and take a picture. You'll basically be
only to read the numbers on the negative with a miscoscope - but again
you need very good equipment for this.

These are not huge secrets anyway :-)

I wrote a program in PERL called Papazulu, it's on Sourceforge, it
basically prepares the one-time pads and even the voice messages, using
one of our favourite voices. It's rather primitive but it works :-)

Flavio


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