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[Cryptography] one-time pads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kelsey)
Mon Jan 20 12:28:46 2014
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From: John Kelsey <crypto.jmk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:17:03 -0500
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One-time pads replace a relatively well understood cipher design problem with an almost intractible key management problem. If you're not trying to keep secrets from adversaries living in the low Beyond, they're not much use.
--John
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