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Re: Rest of World encryption hardware products?

To: Andrade@ix.netcom.com, sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
Subject: Re: Rest of World encryption hardware products?
From: yjj@mci.net (Yuan John Jiang)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:36:04 -0400
Cc: Stephen.Waters@digital.com, ipsec@tis.com
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

>"With RKS, a Random KeyStream derived from a physical random 
>number generator is used as the cipher key.  Conforming to the 
>requirements for a practical Vernam Cipher, the Random KeyStream
>is the same length as the message and will not repeat with a 
>small statistical probability. The secret is the effective 
>management of a virtual keystream over 10낳 bytes long."

Forgive me if I'm wrong.  But doesn't "will not repeat with a
small statistical probability" mean "will repeat with a high
probability"?

John

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