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by sold 3868 days ago
I'd like to add this scenario actually happened during the Cold War. Soviets were reusing one time pads and the US army decrypted some of the messages, among other things this lead to discovery of Soviet spies targeting the US nuclear weapon program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxx3Bkmv3ck

Computerphile recently showed how this was done.

Is it really still a "one time pad" if you used it multiple times?