Wyoming Survival: ONE TIME PAD VIDEOS
Originally appeared on Wyoming Survival. I cover this extensively in the RTO Advanced Course where students are required to use it in sending messages. -NCS
Here are some one time pad videos. These are a bit different than the other OTP I posted before. These use letters and numbers. There is a decode sheet and there is a link to a website that generates the OTP.
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Rather than buying yet another gun, it might be wise for readers to obtain a one-time pad printer while they’re still available:
https://partisanlabs.com/product/adl-1-one-time-pad-printer/
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NCScout digs up another set of decent vids. (Fun stuff, kids enjoy “training” on this as well.)
For what it’s worth, I don’t bother with a dedicated printer. I use a program called Numbers (freebie) and it lets me set a variety of parameters, including print layout on standard paper. You can also generate them & keep for rainy day or training those in your group. (Using these is a perishable skill so do that training thing.) A big factor is the seed; if you let the computer set this on its own, or someone else’s device, it may or may not be as random.
You can wiggle your mouse around just fine for the Numbers program to fill a buffer for the seed. But I’ve found it both easier & likely better to use the atmosphere. Numbers will accept an audio file as the key, so with the digital setup with my radios I can capture atmospheric noise audio by the ton and that gets read in as my randomizing seed for the values to be generated.
PROPERLY done, this is the only system where you can literally hand a message to an unknowing Courier-bubba in your Fraternal Order of Bubbas for delivery and if they & the message get waylaid, too bad for them but just change days & try again because that other message ain’t gettin’ broken. But as NCScout will surely hammer, break your craft of never re-using a key and all your U-boats are belong to me.
I’m guessing you don’t want to use this guy’s OTP generation page for serious business? My understanding is that his OTP won’t be true random. But it would be good for practicing the technique.
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