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Re: Ransomware

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"Scott Lurndal" wrote:

> "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?

Not very likely.  But a properly generated one-time pad is *provably* 
secure, anything else is subject to *solutions* presented by experts all 
over the world coming out of the woodwork.
----
I wonder if you have in mind the table from_Reference Data for Radio 
Engineers_?  Unless I made a mistake, there are only 6400 starting points in 
that table. I think someone with a handy-dandy library of crypto breaking 
code would break that before lunch.  ... But my point was the principle, not 
the numbers 

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