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[Cryptography] one time pads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Fri Sep 13 17:04:30 2013
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From: John Kelsey <crypto.jmk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:00:05 -0400
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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Switching from AES to one-time pads to solve your practical cryptanalysis problems is silly. It replaces a tractable algorithm selection problem with a godawful key management problem, when key management is almost certainly the practical weakness in any broken system designed by non-idiots.
--Jhn
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