[Cryptography] [cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[Steve Furlong]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 01/14/2014 07:48 PM, John Young wrote:
>> Even precious OTP is compromised, the "gold standard" of
>> industry pure-blooded progeny. No matter, cryptologists are
>> dogged and faithful as rutting canines.

> Huh?  How can this be?

> OTP has always ranged from difficult to impractical to securely deploy,
and
> the larger system where OTP is used will offer targets for attack, but
> one-time-pads themselves are compromised??

Compromised PRNGs.

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