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Re: Ransomware

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"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
>"Scott Lurndal" wrote:
>

>>>> There's a random number generator in the CRC Math Handbook that would
>>>> work, if a bit slowly.
>>>
>>>Well it's not in *my* copy of CRC :-)
>>
>> It's a table in the back.  You're supposed to take a pencil,
>> close your eyes, and touch it to the page.  My copy dates from the 
>> mid-70's
>> and is a box in the attic - it could have been in the chemical handbook 
>> instead.
>
>Oh, *that*. Yes, my CRC has that, but that's just a *table* of random 
>numbers not a *generator*. That's not suitable for a one time pad, since 
>every college graduate of a certain age in the US with a technical degree 
>has that book, so it doesn't meet the "one" criterion for a one-time pad. 
>The smiley was because I thought my copy was a *lot* older than yours. It 
>turns out it was just ... older.

It's the human with the pencil that is the generator.   How likely is it
that two people will randomly select the same set of numbers using that
method?

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