On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 04:26:59 GMT, "Pete" wrote:


"George William Herbert" wrote

Done properly, especially with one time pad encryption,
one can handle this sort of situation.

Consider... the use of CD-R's for pads. They give you 650
megabytes of storage. Assume one message of 1k contents
per minute is sent; that works out to a bit over 43 megabytes
of pad per month, or about 518 megabytes per year. Each receiving
station can have its own pad and its own recipient keying.

And then when one of those CD's gets lost or captured...

Then you can decode messages sent to that one station; assuming that
you can keep your enemies from ever learning that this one station was
attacked and everyone there killed. As soon as they learn the station
was compromised they just stop using that CD and issue a new one.

--
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability
of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft