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0 pointscoliveira5y ago0 comments

If you find something that can break all cryptography in the world, then I think your best option (even for your personal security) is to release everything publicly.

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pacman25y ago

A one time pad can not be broken.

ajarmst5y ago

I always enjoy the reaction when I tell students that we've had provably unbreakable encryption since the 19th century.

generalizations5y ago

And yet any time someone proposes to actually implement it, the response is always negative: "don't roll your own encryption" or "sharing and storing the pads is infeasible" or some such.

Seems like we should have figured out a way by now to use one time pad encyption by default for critical paths, even if that requires new industries to distribute pads and guarantee their security.

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