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One-time pads only work if you already have a secure way to transmit the pads, and if you have that, you could probably use it to transmit your actual data.
by rwallace 12y ago
One-time pads only work if you already have a secure way to transmit the pads, and if you have that, you could probably use it to transmit your actual data.
- peterwwillis 12y agoYou only have to transmit the pads securely once, if you send enough of it. The rest of the time you can transmit non-expensively. That's the whole point. It's the tradeoff of one extra-expensive secured communication once so you can transmit anytime, anywhere afterwards securely. If you really care about nation states grabbing your data, this is a much more reliable system than what is proposed herein. (Though really, just a two-factor auth system would be more secure than what is proposed)