-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/09/13 17:36, Sandy Harris wrote: > John Young <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Tiltman vaunts the One Time Pad but cautions there have been >> effective decrypts exploiting enthusiastic sloppy thinking that >> OTP is unbreakable. Most appears to involve non-decipher means >> and methods. The paper redacts others presumably still >> effective. > > Here's one, not always applicable but devastating when it is: > > http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Stream_cipher#Rewrite_attacks
Reuse of pads is also disastrous - VENONA made a breakthrough due to pad reuse, which wasn't public knowledge at the time the paper was written (though was by the time it was declassified). Cheers, Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSRIG3AAoJEBEET9GfxSfMPAsH/RiJ3eshLdf9wHCVzeZhhhh+ WNSLuJ4Pb3J+B3kjYmei6M3RpfhsA0TWhHZxjUlBnBLqf3/+CoRsXSXMlfTS9EZV BXbNIjiDH5JiYJHGFGp3RZ3Cu1tDO59+1J+albBgMsY9V7Nk67HgBp66n9BuvgxK CqpY1gZQ5dXU/iQVgpUdAgPt9urZeShy9IF8l9pj38tAZtNF6XKjZ/HvezbGwh4s yhoYsYjIT56Nc04/yGKJKTwGztPJ4V3oIcKeXgCYCQx5AbGNqkimk+fnkiYVFzoW Wq3ycmgMJqFYSr3GSGniGjPeh/4kOsvSQSENHUzGW6qk//bNkgrsRm3TekCSsQQ= =lPIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
