On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:26:17PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > > Do you mean actually recycled? Or are you thinking of one-time pads?
Not really. Umm, what about: http://www.logicalsecurity.com/resources/whitepapers/Cryptography.pdf "... We'll cite two kinds of rotation ciphering machines: the Jefferson disk and the ..." And the term "rotation" crops up in the actual ciphering technique, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher "... For instance, here is a Caesar cipher using a left rotation of three places, equivalent to a right shift of 23 (the shift parameter is used as the key): ..." And as the technology "evolved" the terminology did not and got infused into modern technology. E.g. "Hey Barman, can you put that on the slate mate." :) I'm not sure if my reasoning is accurate or not, but it sounds darned good to me. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130729151946.GA1893@tal
