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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:06PM (#9751047)
You can't copyright a random number although I suppose you could insert some deadbeefs for "artistic" effect without compromising the pad.
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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by lisper on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:39PM (#9751129)
> You can't copyright a random number

Why not?

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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by mastax on Saturday June 20, 2015 @06:57PM (#9751330)
Sony certainly tried.
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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:24PM (#9751401)
No creative effort.
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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by lisper on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:38PM (#9751444)
So write a haiku, xor your random key with repeated copies of your haiku, call the result modern art, and copyright that.
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Re:Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption by Dylan16807 on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:09AM (#9752741)
And when it serves a functional purpose as key you get to use it anyway.
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