> The pads themselves are however highly guarded secrets, usually passed along via a dead drop, only ever exposed to the minimum of people and designed to be very easy to destroy quickly and are a bit flimsy as a result.
One other note here is that OTPs don’t have to be distributed in this manner. An OTP can use something already distributed and readily available to end users, such as a Gideon Bible or something (making sure to get the right edition, printing, etc) that everyone in a hotel room has access to. The key is having access to something, making sure it’s long enough for the series of messages to be encoded/decoded, and that no one else knows what it is.
One other note here is that OTPs don’t have to be distributed in this manner. An OTP can use something already distributed and readily available to end users, such as a Gideon Bible or something (making sure to get the right edition, printing, etc) that everyone in a hotel room has access to. The key is having access to something, making sure it’s long enough for the series of messages to be encoded/decoded, and that no one else knows what it is.