I've posted a draft paper on my web site at
http://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1460 ;
here's the abstract:
The invention of the one-time pad is generally credited to
Gilbert S. Vernam and Joseph O. Mauborgne. We show that it
was invented about 35 years earlier by a Sacramento banker
named Frank Miller. We provide a tentative identification
of which Frank Miller it was, and speculate on whether or
not Mauborgne might have known of Miller's work, especially
via his colleague Parker Hitt.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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