thoughts on one time pads

[Steven M. Bellovin]

How high-assurance are these CD destruction methods?  I don't recall 
seeing any articles on CD data recovery under normal conditions, let 
alone these.  As always, it depends on your threat model.  (Aside: to 
me, the only reason for using one-time pads is because you don't trust 
conventional encryption algorithms.  Given that AES is rated for top 
secret traffic by NSA, I will assert that any enemy who has a chance of 
attacking it can devote considerable resources to data recovery from 
smashed CDs.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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