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From: Dirk Claessens
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00

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J French <jerry@iss.u-net.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> Effectively this is a one time pad, and is pretty much unbreakable.
>

Sure, but not just "pretty much" , a one time pad *is* unbreakable IF :
- the key is random.
- the key is at least as long as the plaintext message.
Even today, numerous radio messages from WWII cannot be decoded, because
they were encrypted with one time pads.

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