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To: dayglored

As if they could.

Serious crypto needs will be met with one-time pads that are unbreakable by anyone.


22 posted on 12/10/2015 8:24:29 PM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: bigbob

One-time pad is extremely simple and also provable to be mathematically secure against any brute force attack.

A universe full of quantum computers is no match for one-time-pad.

It does however re-introduce the key-exchange problem.

And the key is also at least as long as the message itself...

It requires a true random number source.... but this is easy using something like diode noise.

The old German Enigma was actually a type of one-time-pad ... but it had a horribly flawed mechanical random number generator. (and some doofus thought it a great idea to make it so no letter could ever be encrypted as itself i.e. A = A ... lol)


25 posted on 12/10/2015 8:31:52 PM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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