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Re:A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what ... by PeterisP on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:51AM (#14819415)
One-time pad means that you have a limit to how much data you can exchange before the pad is spent - if you send enough messages, then you can't send any more securely until you exchange another one-time pad.

You're not likely to get a collision ever because of the typical sizes of one-time pads - birthday paradox matters if the key length is measured in bytes, but not if it's measured in gigabytes, there isn't enough space/time in our universe to expect a collision.

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