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Giff (giff@eng.us.uu.net)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
> I would not not use ANY generated sequence for a OTP, simply because a OTP
> is supposed to be *randomly* generated. If you produce a long pseudo-random
> sequence starting from a comparatively small key, and xor it with the
> plaintext, you are using a simple type of stream cipher. In that case, the
> entropy of the sequence is not greater than the number of bits of the key,
> instead of being (to the best of everybody's knowledge) equal to the the
> sequence's length.
Certainly, although the original poster did not say how he generated the
OTP. If he had some external random source, then he could use that as a
basis for OTP use. Certainly he couldn't if he had a deterministic
program generating them. Sorry for not clarifying that in my response...
-Giff
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00