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Re:An Unbreakable Code? by demallien on Saturday April 11, 2009 @04:36AM (#557364)
It's just a one time pad with a novel key distribution system, where instead of directly sharing the key, you share the information necessary to extract the key from a random stream. In addition to not introucing any new security advantages, it brings in a potential weakness - what if the source of random numbers isn't as random as the designer thinks? Someone could potentially retrieve the key without having access to the key extraction information...
Re:An Unbreakable Code? by bf on Monday April 13, 2009 @02:24AM (#559489)
It's slightly better than a one time pad, in that a finite-length key (namely, a time offset) could transmit an infinite-length message.

Of course, the assumptions required are still completely unrealistic.