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

[Bill Frantz]

On 1/15/14 at 7:38 AM, demonfighter at gmail.com (Steve Furlong) wrote:

>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.

If the system uses a PRNG, it isn't a OTP. It is a stream cypher 
using the PRNG to generate the cypher stream.

Cheers - Bill

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