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Nth digit of PI

Mike Mccarty Sr jmccarty at sun1307.ssd.usa.alcatel.com
Fri Jun 16 15:36:48 EDT 2000 
In article <394a5ed7.83928743 at 10.1.1.28>,
Tim Dixon <tdixon.no at spam.fwi.com> wrote:
)On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:33:59 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com>
)wrote:
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)>> Suppose, however, that you could get digit 'n' of pi directly (or e,
)>> or any other inifinte, nonrepeating sequence).  All I have to do is
)>> communicate which digit of pi the message key starts at, and I can
)>> generate the rest of the key.
)>
)>This is a collosally bad idea, IMO.
)>
)>
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)Just for curiosity, why?

For one thing, it doesn't implement a one-time-pad. If I guess that you
are using PI as your key, then I can decrypt all your messages.

Mike


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