[Cryptography] RIP Claude Shannon

[Jon Callas]

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> The 1x pad random keying material is "freeze dried adjacency".  It is a *resource* that you can stock up on in advance -- kind of like fuel or gold, that you can stockpile in your fallout bunker.
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> If you've got nothing important to talk about with a friend over a beer, share some key material instead.  Later, when you *do* have something to talk about, you can use some of that key material to gain the advantage of adjacency when discussing over long distances.
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> When you need to send out a confidential message, you sprinkle some of this fairy dust on the message, and you're good to go.

My little thought experiment is saying that if you can securely transmit pads, you can securely transmit data.

The reason for "stockpiling" the pad as you put it is only that you're on a crap network, and don't have crypto.

	Jon


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