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Well book ciphers go some ways back and they are almost OTP (in the sense of how they are performed, not in the sense of security properties). It may have been
by im3w1l 4y ago
Well book ciphers go some ways back and they are almost OTP (in the sense of how they are performed, not in the sense of security properties). It may have been prohibitively expensive to print a custom pad used for encryption.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoExpensive but spy agencies did it.
- jrochkind1 4y agoA one-time pad seems totally feasible to me without a computer, and sufficient motivation. RSA does not. They're different algorithms of course! OTP is a very simple one, as you point out.