On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:37:59AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> Since a OTP depends critically on never using the same pad to encrypt
> multiple plaintexts, it conversely also depends on the same pad only
> decrypting a single ciphertext.  If a onetime implementation implements
> a decryption oracle, an attacker can almost certainly leverage multiple
> decryption attempts with timing or error discrimination to break the pad
> entirely.

Sorry, meant to add --

therefore, it's important that onetime record that a given range of pad
is consumed *on decryption* and is only used, thereafter, to decrypt
the identical ciphertext.

-andy
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