@zeynep @bhpascal @normative One-time pads? In August 1914? Citation, please! They did screw up their crypto, but I doubt it was OTPs.
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Replying to @SteveBellovin
@SteveBellovin@bhpascal@normative Actually, it's a great example of difference between public key and old-style cryptography/secrecy.. +1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@SteveBellovin@bhpascal@normative They couldn't get their system to all three divisions; communicated in plain; Germans fished in barrel.+2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@bhpascal@normative Right, that was what I remembered.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SteveBellovin
@SteveBellovin@zeynep@bhpascal@normative I ask because I've done research on OTP history; there is a rumor that Russia did have it early1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @SteveBellovin
@SteveBellovin@bhpascal@normative I will find the citation; not sure if it was OTP or not but the issue was getting a pad to a place.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@SteveBellovin@bhpascal@normative IIRC, the issue was a codebook and new ciphers, not a pad.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @NetNezva
@NetNezva@SteveBellovin@bhpascal@normative You may well be right; though same issue would have been with pad. Pads need to get to places.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @zeynep
@zeynep@NetNezva@bhpascal@normative Yes--that's why I said that OTPs aren't operationally usable.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @SteveBellovin
@SteveBellovin@NetNezva@bhpascal@normative Exactly! I'll try to remember/read up on what they had in the 1914 Eastern front.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@SteveBellovin @NetNezva @bhpascal @normative Whatever else; seems likely that WWI might have been but one month *had* Russians used OTP.
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