[Cryptography] 1x pad: the elephant in the Apple/DOJ courtroom

Ray Dillinger bear at sonic.net
Wed Feb 24 12:34:49 EST 2016



On 02/23/2016 01:03 PM, Richard Outerbridge wrote:

> So how & where do the at least two copies of the manual one-time pad get securely generated & printed?
> 
> Or is that an exercise best left to the reader?
> __outer

They get securely generated by drawing individual bits of metal
type out of a bin where they've been dumped together, and securely
printed by loading the metal type into a mechanical, manually
operated printing press where some poor sod has to ink the type
with a roller and then yank the handle to press the type plate
down on the paper.

If you're going to make secure crypto hardware illegal, that's
the kind of stuff you really have to worry about.  All this
focus on electronics and code is just grabbing the low-hanging
fruit that's easy and convenient to subvert and eavesdrop, and
doesn't address any of the *really* secure hardware that actual
paranoids use.

Like, you know, pens.  And paper.  and dice, and packs of cards,
and poker chips, and game spinners.  Or shotguns vs. graph paper
at twenty paces.  Or cassette tape recorders vs. popcorn poppers.
Or bingo ball cages.  Or cats.  Can't have any of that horribly
subversive stuff!  Gotta file special papers to take those across
a border, 'cause they're dangerous threats to national security!

				Bear,
			actually partly serious...



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