Re: R: Re[2]: One time key

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 10:00:25AM +0100, Raistlin wrote:

> (peraltro, come faceva notare qualcuno su questa ML, se potete scambiarvi le
> chiavi su dischetto fate prima a scambiarvi anche i dati sullo stesso
> dischetto :)

beh, una buona cosa puo' essere scambiarsi (a mano) un bel cd con una one-time-pad e
per i prossimi 650 Mb sei a cavallo :)

ps: qualcuno ha dato un'occhiata a questo (il ny vuole la reg :( :

split horizon writes: "The New York Times is reporting that Professor
Michael Rabin of Harvard University claims to have developed a cryptosystem
that is both practical and provably unbreakable. It sounds to me like it
basically uses a one-time pad that's generated on the fly very quickly."
Good stuff, but don't expect to see this in the next version of gnupg - the
logistical difficulties are high and the system you'll end up with won't be
any more secure in practice than public-key encryption techniques already
widely available.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/science/20CODE.html?pagewanted=all

snake-oil? vaporware? 

bye
Koba


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