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Subject: Re: one time pad and random num gen
From: Mike Brodhead (mkbblack-ice.org)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 11:10:23 CDT

> > A one-time pad with a random key smaller than the plaintext is usually
> > called a stream-cipher ;)

> one-time pads does not have keys.

we seem to be differing over semantics. while a true OTP is not
produced using a key, the OTP itself is sometimes referred to as a
key, albeit a very large one.

--mkb