Better, but...
It's refreshing to see an article of this sort where the "why didn't they just roll their own--it's easy!" comment(s) appear to be missing. So: it's time for the second great fallacy of crypto: one-time pads fix everything.
It is true that perfect one-time pads are cryptographically unbreakable. The weakness of a one-time pad system is not in the keys, but in the key distribution. You see, the key itself is a type of message, and you need to get that message to both ends of a conversation you want to have. Now, in order to securely transmit a message between two parties, you just.....encrypt... Nope, you cannot use encryption. For the purposes of these discussions, the key is itself a plaintext message which has to be transmitted somehow.
Certainly, if your 64Gb of random noise gets picked up by a TLA, they don't know how those bits are being interpreted. They still have to understand the underlying crypto system that is going to convert those bits into a key. But again, that it true for ANY crypto system. We have to assume that this is known.
I am certainly not suggesting that one-time pads are useless. But they are not practical for many, many use cases.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
