[Cryptography] RIP Claude Shannon

[Henry Baker]

At 02:30 PM 2/23/2016, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>At the time Shannon was working, we were fighting for our lives.  That tends to bring out actual leaders and actual understanding of the realities.  While politics is never absent, it's usually submerged somewhat when the survival of the country is at stake.  (At least it is in countries that survive....)

So far as I know, neither the Germans nor the Japanese used 1x pads (I seem to recall that there was a Japanese agent who tried, but didn't use good OPSEC & got caught).

The Soviets used them, but they were our *allies* during WWII.