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Subject: Re: One Time Pad encryption over the Internet, securely?
From: colt @ ra . isa . com (George Colt)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 08:02:49 -0400 (EDT)
To: csb @ connect . com . au (Craig Bishop)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199510260745 . RAA16385 @ koromiko . off . connect . com . au> from "Craig Bishop" at Oct 26, 95 05:45:13 pm
Reply-to: colt @ isavax . isa . com

>From the keyboard of Craig Bishop:
> This software uses a One Time Pad via a patent pending method. I am no
> encryption expert and the information available is limited but it would
> seem to me that there is no way to do this over the internet securely.

A one time pad is the only "unbreakable" encryption method, and would
be quite easy to implement over the internet. The problem is distributing
the (first) pad. :-)

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