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One Time Pads are perfect, except for the rather crucial problem of key exchange. You have to meet your intended recipient irl at some point to exchange pads, a
by MarcScott 7y ago
One Time Pads are perfect, except for the rather crucial problem of key exchange. You have to meet your intended recipient irl at some point to exchange pads, and I don't fancy meeting up with every sysadmin who's server I want to access some HTML files from.
- ColanR 7y agoThat's the point of my second paragraph. The pads would be an item of trade. You buy an 'OTP yubikey' with 2GB of otp data for each of the top 50 websites, plug it in, and you're good for a month. The website spends 10k on a petabyte of otp data.
- brokenmachine 7y agoSo you can only securely access the top 50 websites, and need to go in person to buy the key. That sounds like a beyond ridiculous system. We can do better.