at Wednesday, October 16, 2002 6:13 PM, Bill Frantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > OTP is also good when: > (1) You can solve the key distribution problem. Its certainly usable provided key distribution isn't an issue - if it is also worth the trouble and expense is another matter.
> (2) You need a system with a minimum of technology (e.g. no computers) it certainly does shine in this context - few decent encryption methods can be done with pencil and paper, and certainly by protecting the key with extra (discarded) characters, you can make the key document look innoculous indeed. Of course, indicating those characters then becomes a problem (unless you use some simplistic scheme like the second and second from last characters of each word in a specified book, but the odds of a random distribution from such is low)
