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From: Jean-Simon Durand (bugtraq@SUPERNET.CA)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 01:50:18 CST

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    Hi,

    This doesn't really add to the discussion on One-Time pads, but I wanted to
    comment on your first statement. Last I heard, researchers were able to get
    over a Petabit/s with one fiber strand. Also, Teleglobe already owns some
    switches that can do 800GBit/s on a single fiber. If we consider that some
    fiber trunks have over 800 strands, we can't even imagine what will be
    possible in a few years!

    Here is an interesting article on the subject.

    http://www.canarie.ca/MLISTS/testnet/0863.html

    There is also a Montreal based company that is developping a petabit router.

    http://www.hyperchip.com/

    Cheers!

    Jean-Simon Durand
    Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    System and network administrator / Cam Internet
    jsimon@cam.org / 514-529-3000

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Mohammed Hamed" <mr_mhamed@HOTMAIL.COM>
    To: <CISSPSTUDY@SECURITYFOCUS.COM>
    Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:03 PM
    Subject: Re: [CISSPSTUDY] This should start up a discussion....

    > Well, 10 million million bits/sec is 10 TerraBit/sec I don't know what
    sort
    > of communication medium that may allow transfer at that rate..AFAIK even
    > Fiber Optics are in the Gb ranges.
    > The whole article looks to me more of using science fiction movies slang.
    As
    > well as the idea is not new it is well known before as One time pads. It
    was
    > strange however that none of the security experts quoted in the article
    made
    > such a comment over the idea. Anyway as noted the article the problems lie
    > not in how secure the method is, otherwise how is it gonna be implemented.
    > Agreeing with u, the method of random key distribution maybe the weakest
    > point in the method.

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