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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to
Message-ID: <Do7L9B.8GH.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4hsv73$d3h@park.uvsc.edu> <Do6395.837.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <m2rauyrpv5.fsf@notung.msu.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:53:35 GMT
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In article <m2rauyrpv5.fsf@notung.msu.edu> dunham@gdl.msu.edu (Steve Dunham) writes:
>What do you mean, a one-time pad is in a known search space...(So, by
>his definition, it is security through obscurity.
Well, it's a known search space but it's not amenable to search because
there's no way to tell whether you've found the right key, so I gave
Terry the benefit of the doubt on that :-)
-- Richard
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