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Swiss spies knew about Crypto AG compromise – and kept it from govt overseers for nearly 30 years

Schultz
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"Encryption is hard; don't roll-your-own;"

One-time pads are easy, so why not roll your own? I would expect that any self-respecting bad actor (i.e., all those secret services out there), figured this one out quite a while ago. a memory stick (cd, floppy, ...) can hold a decent amount of randomness to sprinkle across your data.

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