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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

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How to Encrypt a Radio Transmission Without Any Computing?

I don't understand how it's possible to have a physical pad that does the encryption without any computing. What are we talking about? So, so no, no, it doesn't do any work. The resulting set of digits then had a one to one correlation to letters. And this is an easy way to then do the correlation. Yes. Well, that's cool. That's, uh, and you're saying the algorithm was not efficient. It was not, oh, the manual that took a long time. You can't make an error. Right. Uh, would you know where, can you, it's the easiest debug? No, you know, you do it twice

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