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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by andai on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:39PM (#13851859)
You only need to meet once.

With a few GB (a couple bucks in a supermarket will buy a 8GB usb stick) you can communicate in text about 16 thousand books worth of words.

In other words, to deplete the pad you would have to write sixteen thousand books.

I think that's pretty convenient, as far as literally unbreakable encryption goes!

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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by eru on Sunday March 12, 2017 @01:49PM (#13851917)
Oh, definitely. The convenience of being able to secure your communication in advance is great.

It's just that key-sharing is basically the most complicated and vulnerable part of modern cryptography.

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