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### Why wouldn't everyone encrypt with a One Time Pad? [duplicate]

A One Time Pad (OTP) sounds perfectly secure if we are to believe Wikipedia. But on the surface it also sounds ridiculously impractical - how does one securely distribute the OTP? Idea: why not have ...
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### Vigenère cipher with sha512 and a little foresight turns to one-time pad. How safe can be?

I'm doing some exercises and of course I have read about the weaknesses of Vigenère cipher because it repeats the key. But what if I use a different hash every time? The hash of the "key + an ...
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### One Time Pads and reuse of the decrypted message?

How is it insecure when Alice encrypts a message with a One-Time-Pad to Bob, and Bob then uses the decrypted message from Alice as the next One-Time-Pad? For example: Alice sends Bob a message ...
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### Is the Vernam (One Time Pad) cipher useful? [duplicate]

By profession I’m a programmer. I don’t know a lot about how cryptographic algorithms are implemented, or even where I’d start, and I don’t know about cryptanalysis, but as I work in Blockchain ...
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### Can I generate OTP secrets by using a hash?

Since I learned about one time pads in last security lecture, I'm quite fascinated how easy the concept is, but how it still is absolutely safe. Learning from implementing a multi time pad attack, ...
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### How vulnerable is one-time pad (OTP) encryption, if the OTP is used twice, with a random substitution scheme

After reading up on the one-time pad (OTP) encryption method, I could see how it would offer unbreakable encryption if used properly. Moreover, I looked at how the OTP could be broken if the OTP-key ...
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### Multiple Encryption - One-Time Pad

It is known that One-Time Pad(OTP)s are theoretically unbreakable but impractical for use because of the size of the key length. But what if multiple encryption is used? Not to encrypt the first ...
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### Including the next random One Time Pad as part of the encoded message?

I've tried to do something very simple here, which is to encrypt a message with a one-time-pad (OTP) and include the next OTP as part of that same encrypted message. i.e. The first message consists of ...
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### Can one construct OTPs without using XOR?

The typical version of the one-time-pad (OTP) uses XOR to combine a key pad and a message. ($c=m\oplus k$) Now let's assume some other scenarios which have the practical application of blinding. Do ...
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### Perfect Deniability of a MAC

Overview One feature that is often underlooked of the One-Time Pad is its perfect deniability. i.e. If Alice sends a message to Bob that is seen by Eve then if Eve later goes to Alice with the ...
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### One time pad- XORing or substitution

I have come across 2 versions of otp while reading it and want to confirm it. they have taken a plain text consisting of alphabets where they are shifted and replaced by alphabets itself. XORing of ...
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### XORing to detect decrypted value?

So I am doing a CTF and I have found a text that is full with hexadecimal encrypted value with XOR (that was a given hint from the previous flag). I don't have the key but I know the length of the key ...