absolutely true. i mentioned (in my article) that after explaining the masking.
--- jth...@astro.indiana.edu wrote:
From: Jonathan Thornburg <jth...@astro.indiana.edu>
To: jam...@echeque.com, cryptography@randombit.net
Subject: Re: [cryptography] non-decryptable encryption
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:30:59 -0400 (EDT)
The digit sequence
0.1234567891011121314151617181920212223...
(or its equivalent in binary, hex, or your other favorite base)
never repeats, but provides no security whatsoever. One-time pads
need nonrepeating sequences *which the adversary can't predict*.
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
<jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
-- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam
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