[TriLUG] "congress mulls stiff crypto laws"

[James Oden]

> Sorry for such a long message, but I wanted to show that simply spending
> alot of money on computation power for law enforcement will not enable
> them to get into bad-guy's e-mail if its encrypted with a strong
> algorithm. In fact, one technique- the one time pad- is theoretically
> unbreakable. It's inconvenient to use, but its inpenetrable. But it's
> limited by the fact that you need as much key as you have data, and  both
> sides must have the same key securely. You must use a new key each time.
> But done right- inpenetrable.

And you can also enforce against collusion and or physical theft by 
breaking the pad up into several files distributed to several individuals,
making the decryption of the encrypted message only possible when one has
all the parts to the key...james