Manufactured One Time Pad

[Quentin Campbell]

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Andrew Meredith wrote:

[snip]
> They then present the whole thing in court. The information on the bust.
> The "Fact" that Alice was intimately involved. The "Cracked" key for the
> message. They could even go to the theatrical step of making Alice press
> the button that magically reveals all.

If the Bill does pass into law then you could make a killing as a forensic
cryptologist acting for the defence in cases where OTP's were alleged to
have been used. 

It might be a little more difficult to judge whether you should use whimsy
or play it straight when devising other "cracked" OTP keys that you could
apply against the "encrypted" text to render it into "accessible form".

I should have thought that any good defence team with the necessary
technical back-up would would quickly dispose of the sort of planted
evidence that you describe?
 
Quentin
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