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On 02/04/2014 12:10 PM, Todd Dokey wrote:
So, the sheets in a OTP are rather like toilet paper I suspect. ;)
I vaguely recall seeing a couple of OTP pages on
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The pad contains multiple pages, it is not just one page.
Howard
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OTPs have also been on microdots / microfilm.
It just depends.
The general philosophy is the same, use a page once, and never again.
So, the sheets in a OTP are rather like toilet paper I suspect. ;)
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I should have said that it is the same way you talk of a writing pad, being
multiple sheets of paper. Maybe some other countries used the term OTP to
refer to a page but that was certainly not my experience in
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Howard,
Yeah, its somewhat of a crossover meaning, because it typically is a
pad, but the method of encryption carries the same name, which refers
to the sheet itself, which is part of a pad.
So if using a pad
