[Cryptography] one time pads

John Kelsey crypto.jmk at gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 17:00:05 EDT 2013


Switching from AES to one-time pads to solve your practical cryptanalysis problems is silly.  It replaces a tractable algorithm selection problem with a godawful key management problem, when key management is almost certainly the practical weakness in any broken system designed by non-idiots.  

--Jhn




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