All Stories published by 100 days of algorithms on April 08, 2017

Day 15: Breaking OTP

Sometimes I read that one-time pad is an unbreakable cipher. And of course, completely broken example is usually attached.

The problem is, people confuse the definition of perfect cipher for unbreakable. If the cipher is perfect (according to Shannon), the…

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