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insecure	Oct 11 2005, 08:27 PM
Elite member Posts: 381 Group: Trusted Member Member #10 Joined: September 9, 2005	Donald Oct 11 2005, 05:58 PM One time pads are absolutely uncrackable and secure. And also so impractical as to be almost useless. When security is the only consideration, and practicality can take a running jump, the one-time pad is still used. For example, the USA used one-time pads during the Cold War, for communications with their embassy in Moscow. I suspect they probably still do, and not just for the Moscow embassy, either. You remember how, on TV news bulletins in the 1970s, when politicians flew to Russia or wherever, you used to sometimes see those guys in suits with the briefcases chained to their wrists? Well, now you should be able to work out what was in the briefcases.


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