Travis H. wrote:
In this article, Bruce Schneier argues against the practicality of a one-time pad: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0210.html#7 I take issue with some of the assumptions raised there. [...] Then a $1 CD-ROM would hold enough data for 70000 years of communication! [...] So my questions to you are: 1) Do you agree with my assessment? If so, why has every crypto expert I've seen poo-pooed the idea?
You shift to the problem of filling CDs with pure random data. Which physical property do you want to sample and with which type of hardware do you expect to sample it and at which rate, and with which protection against eavesdroping during the sampling? At what cost? With what kind of design assurance that the pure random data is indeed pure and random?
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