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Subj : Numbers stations
To   : Digital Man
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 11:38 am

  Re: Numbers stations
  By: Digital Man to Angus McLeod on Mon Aug 15 2005 23:58:00

 >  > I still think that the numbers traffic must be the *message* and not the
 >  > key itself.  The OTP must be handed to the agent back in Mossad
 >  > headquarters *before* he sets off for Tehran.  Then he listens for
 >  > broadcasts on a memorized schedule on an innocent shortwave receiver...
 > 
 > Yes, that does make more sense. In which case, the key may not be an OTP at
 > all. <shrug>
 > 
 > I suppose transmitting the OTP in a message on one day/time/freq and
 > transmitting the ciphertext message itself on another day/time/freq would ju
 > be too obvious. :-)

Or the OTP is a specific book each day/week/month etc... they could even
broadcast an offset from the last library of congress number for the next OTP.

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