Re:Hashing is not encryption
by zarzavat on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:05PM
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"OTP" should not be taken literally here, it's merely an analogy.
Yes, true one-time pad encryption is not secure by modern standards, as you mention there's no authentication, you need a perfect random number source, and key management is horrendous.
However, the concept of encryption by XORing a stream and the plaintext is very much the modern way of doing things, and "OTP" is an analogy for that.
Yes, true one-time pad encryption is not secure by modern standards, as you mention there's no authentication, you need a perfect random number source, and key management is horrendous.
However, the concept of encryption by XORing a stream and the plaintext is very much the modern way of doing things, and "OTP" is an analogy for that.