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kabdib
3159 days ago
No, one-time pads are really unbreakable. You can't tell if the key you generated, which yielded "ATTACK AT DAWN", decrypted to the real message. It might have been "HN != SLASHDOT" -- all decrypts are equally likely.
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benwilber0
3159 days ago
edited thanks. he even explicitly said that it was unbreakable in the article I linked :-).
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