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"OTP" should not be taken literally here, it's merely an analogy. Yes, true one-time pad encryption is not secure by modern standards, as you mention there's n
by zarzavat 5y ago
"OTP" should not be taken literally here, it's merely an analogy.
Yes, true one-time pad encryption is not secure by modern standards, as you mention there's no authentication, you need a perfect random number source, and key management is horrendous.
However, the concept of encryption by XORing a stream and the plaintext is very much the modern way of doing things, and "OTP" is an analogy for that.
- akerl_ 5y ago“OTP” isn’t an analogy for the concept of XORing a stream. One-time-pad is a specific way of handling key generation.