Thread: Encryption
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Unread 1 Mar 2006, 21:48   #24
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Re: Encryption

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Originally Posted by acropolis
if you can securely transmit a one-time pad, you could just as easily transmit a secure message.
The "usual" way to use this is that you generate a media like a DVD, a DAT tape or even a hard disk full of really random data and meet with whoever you want to exchange secure messages for example during a public convention (those are also regularly used to sign each others PGP keys for example so you build up a chain of trust). Afterwards you can exchange "secure" messages with that person till the random data is used up.

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