[TML] Space Piracy

[Richard Aiken]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not a question of "holding out".  Killing people won't get something
> that simply *isn't* aboard this ship anymore (the destroyed crypto key)!
> Even if they somehow manage to find the super-secret extra copy, *it's*
> encrypted the same way.

Hmmm . . . so the pirates would need to know that the data was
encrypted using a one-time pad.

If they do: The attack never happens in the first place.

If they don't: Everybody dies. No point in leaving witnesses.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein