asymetric warfare

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...

One of those CDs is lost or captured, and then the opponent
has a years worth of weather reports and routine messages
to two tech sergeants and a light squad of flunkies and
guards in a warehouse / launch bunker in the middle of the
desert.

You use a different CD pair for each bunker. It's easy enough
with CD-Rs.


-george william herbert

(George William Herbert) wrote:

Pete wrote:

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

One of those CDs is lost or captured, and then the opponent
has a years worth of weather reports and routine messages
to two tech sergeants and a light squad of flunkies and
guards in a warehouse / launch bunker in the middle of the
desert.

Or maybe if the war is two weeks away, you've got your 'East Wind'
message.

You use a different CD pair for each bunker. It's easy enough
with CD-Rs.

Easy enough to generate the CD's. Key distribution & syncing up could
be a bit problematical though. Solveable, but non-trivial.

D.
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:46:40 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

You use a different CD pair for each bunker. It's easy enough
with CD-Rs.

Easy enough to generate the CD's. Key distribution & syncing up could
be a bit problematical though. Solveable, but non-trivial.

Syncing should be easy enough, include a station ID/date header at
the front of every message and let a computer start scanning key
blocks until beginning of the message results in a valid ID header and
go from there. Worst case scenario is that the computer checks all
700,000 key blocks and doesn't find a match because the wrong disc was
used; however the operator should notice that something is wrong long
before this.

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