"Fais-moi confiance", he said

Hello again Dear Reader. In today's post, I thought I would recount a small job I completed last week for a legal Client, on behalf of lawyers for an investment firm abroad.

What started out as a relatively banal case has turned into something quite interesting - with overtures of international fraud and money laundering.

But it all started with a routine tracing enquiry.

Nothing To See Here: The One-Time Pad

Today, Tovarich, we are going to learn how to use a One-Time Pad (or OTP) to encrypt, or decrypt, secret communications. This system is essentially unbreakable so long as it is only used ONCE - hence the name.

While not exactly part of a regular PI's toolbox, it may be of possible interest to budding spies.

You will need:

1. Some paper
2. A pencil
3. State secrets

How much would you pay?

It is often said, usually by me, that I'm full of good ideas.

Sadly, most of those ideas never get off the ground due to my highly developed apathetic nature, but that's just the way things are.

See? That's nihilism in action right there!

Anyway, one of my (many) projects for 2012 is to complete a novel I started working on a while ago - and that made me think that perhaps I could also work on something smaller and of a non-fiction nature.

Perhaps an ebook...

Nothing to see here...

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