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by tantalor 2274 days ago
> hard to implement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

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It's not clear from the context if you mean to say that's simple or hard with that link.

A OTP might be mathematically simple, but logistically it's very hard - you have to safely distribute the key and that key must be at least as long as the message you're passing.