note 58179 deleted from ref.mcrypt by danbrown

Note Submitter: amiller of connext point net ---- As regards the whole one-time-pad discussion below, I would also add that any one-time pad scheme which involves the key passing through a computer in any fashion is blown from the very beginning. At best, you have to rely on a less-secure cipher for key transmission; at (far-from-uncommon) worst, your key has been written in the clear to some sectors of the disk (for example, by being swapped out of memory), and awaits only someone with a sector-scanning tool to reveal it. If you're thinking about Internet security, considering a one-time pad at all, unless you're planning to use one to protect another cipher system's keys for transmission (and probably even then!), is a waste of your time.