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It's a Stream Cipher, which is an approximation [1] of a One Time Pad, which allows the key to be much shorter than the plaintext. The hardest part is how to g
by opminion 14y ago
It's a Stream Cipher, which is an approximation [1] of a One Time Pad, which allows the key to be much shorter than the plaintext.
The hardest part is how to generate the pad from the key.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher#Loose_inspiration_from_the_one-time_pad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher#Loose_inspiration...