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

[Henry Baker]

At 09:34 AM 2/24/2016, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>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?
>
>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!

Dice, roulette wheels, spinners, etc., are all illegal
*gambling* equipment.  (Didn't you realize that *that's*
why gambling is so subversive -- it isn't about taking
poor people's money, but illegally generating random
numbers that are subsequently used by terrorists.)  I
understand that *Monte Carlo* methods were invented to
simulate atomic weapons; so random numbers are evidence
of weapons of mass destruction.

Random numbers: see something, say something!

I'm playing bingo tonight (seriously!), and I'm going to
ask the caller for her random number list afterwards.