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OTP one time pads are uncrackable if is random enough. Hard part is transporting that decoder to someone.
by m3kw9 4y ago
OTP one time pads are uncrackable if is random enough. Hard part is transporting that decoder to someone.
- lxgr 4y agoTextbook one-time pads are trivially malleable. Sometimes non-malleability matters just as much or more than privacy. ("This is POTUS, do$ÿ} launch the nukes!!!")
- brobdingnagians 4y agoIf you are a developer working for the government and in charge of this, please do not make this mistake. If you are the President of the United States and need to send a message like this, please make it completely unambiguous. Maybe repeat it several times and provide a justification.
- lxgr 4y agoI'm fairly confident that the US government, given that it runs the NSA, has access to a textbook or two on applied cryptography and cryptanalysis and does not need to source input on their cryptographic designs from HN :)