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I'm reaching the limits of my stats knowledge, but you may be able to figure out, even from just those two ciphertexts, something about the input plaintexts. It
by alecbenzer 7y ago
I'm reaching the limits of my stats knowledge, but you may be able to figure out, even from just those two ciphertexts, something about the input plaintexts. It's obviously harder with shorter inputs.
I guess one thing to note is that, if what you were transmitting was just random noise to begin with, OTP re-use may not matter/be evident. But essentially all data that people care about transmitting isn't random noise, it has some structure, and that structure comes through with OTP re-use (more and more the more you re-use and the more data you re-use with).
AIUI, the Enigma machine (not quite an OTP but I think similar) was broken in part because of just a few key re-uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Operating_shortcomings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Op...