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Why is it that a one time pad is vulnerable is the key is shorter than the message? I know that if a key is reused across multiple plaintexts, you can XOR two existing ciphertexts to get the pad, but ...
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### many time pad attack [duplicate]

I am a beginner in cryptography. I studied many time pad attack and now I want to solve a popular exercise, It consists 11 ciphertexts (s1,s2,...,s11), that encrypted by a same key and I want to find ...
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### File using same key on XOR cipher. Using CBC [closed]

I have some files that are encrypted using an unknown key and it's using the CBC method to encrypt the files. When I XOR two files together the first two bytes are always the same, but different for ...
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### Solving for a One-time pad cipher help ; crib dragging doesnt work (no surprise) [duplicate]

Basically we're given the text 7ECC555AB95BF6EC605E5F22B772D2B34FF4636340D32FABC29B 73CB4855BE44F6EC60594C2BB47997B60EEE303049CD3CABC29B 64C6401BAF45F6A930435F3DF875C4E102F8742A45C824AFCA9B ...
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### What to do with this specific scenario of a key reuse [duplicate]

I am brand new to the world of cryptogrophy. I am trying to decrypt a many-time-pad. I understand the methodology of using the XOR to get the messages. C1 XOR C2 = M1 XOR M2 Now my question lies in ...
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### One Time Pad small key multiple times

i'm ask what is the wrong if i used small key multiple times in OTP .? for example : key .. . 10 10 10 10 10 10 plain .. 11 01 01 11 01 00 cipher 01 11 11 01 11 10 what can hacker know about ...
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### How can I find two strings $m_1$ and $m_2$, knowing that I know $m_1 \oplus m_2$? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does one attack a two-time pad (i.e. one time pad with key reuse)? I recently started to follow the cryptography class of Dan Boneh on coursera.org and the first part is ...
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### One-Time-Pad with key-reuse: Faster way of decrypting?

I know there are already of few questions about this and I'm working with the advices that were given but I still doubt my approach is the fastest, so I'd really appreciate if you helped me find a ...
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### Decrypt Messages With Reused Pad [duplicate]

I have 2 messages which have been encrypted using the same pad. I know that if i xor these 2 messages together the key falls out. I am confused in how to figure out what the 2 messages are from the ...
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### Decrypt a message which is encrypted using XOR? [duplicate]

This is a puzzle asked in a contest. Given that encryption , decryption happens as per following rule/code: ...
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### How to decrypt a text which is ciphered same length key? [duplicate]

I have ten piece of ciphered texts. I know that they ciphered with a same-length key. Any idea how I can decrypt the ciphertexts? What kind of algorithms should I use? What are the points of taking ...
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### Computing A, B given A+K and B+K [duplicate]

In his writeup of the Solitaire keystream generator algorithm, Bruce Schneier warns not to use the same key for two different messages: The first rule of an output-feedback mode stream cipher, any ...
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I have given seven cipher text encryted by the many-time pad. All are encrypted uwith the same random chosen secret key but I have no idea how to decrypt them. There are 7 ciphertexts: ...