Re: On the Construction of Pseudo-OTP

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:56:06 +0100

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Bruce Schneier wrote:
>

> I diagree. Terminology is very important. And getting it wrong makes
> you look stupider than you probably are. And the relationship between
> a one-time pad and a pseudo-one-time pad, and the relationship
> between a PRNG and an RNG are very different. What possibly gave
> you the impression that they are the same? The first word?

In my understanding 'pseudo' simply means 'not true'. In medicine
that is also the use of the word 'pseudo' referring to some
illness that look very like a known one but in reality is quite
different. So what is essentially wrong with my usage here? In the
English world there is no institution like in France that
regulates the 'creation' of new words. BTW in another post I
have suggested a replacement with albeit a very long string.

M. K. Shen

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