Subj : Numbers stations
To   : Digital Man
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 12:54 pm

  Re: Numbers stations
  By: Digital Man to Deuce on Wed Aug 17 2005 01:22:00

 >  > Of course, using a rotating schedule of magazines as the OTP would work p
 >  > well I would assume... or even various local newspapers...
 > 
 > The problem with text as the OTP, rather than purely random data, is that te
 > however radomly chosen, still has a predictable pattern which can lead to th
 > ciphertext being decoded.

Hrm?  There is no predictable pattern... you don't use the same set of numbers
twice in a OTP...

Let's say I'm using a current magazine as the OTP and the numbers represent
page, line, word, letter.  I wouldn't need to repeat the same set of four
numbers at all ever.  Without any repetition, there is no pattern to discover. 

The only way to decode it is to 1: discover what each number means then 2:
Figure out what book/magazine/etc the OTP is.

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