Re:A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what ...
by dsacco on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:23AM
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> Formally, the condition isn't "never use a one-time pad with the same key numbers" it's "make sure the key numbers of each pad are statistically independent of each other".
And to expand on this - this is why it is imperative that a source of true randomness is used as a seed. Pseudorandomness cannot (by definition) satisfy statistical independence.
If you don't have a source of true randomness, you've just implemented a stream cipher, not a one-time pad.
And to expand on this - this is why it is imperative that a source of true randomness is used as a seed. Pseudorandomness cannot (by definition) satisfy statistical independence.
If you don't have a source of true randomness, you've just implemented a stream cipher, not a one-time pad.