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Re:Hashing is not encryption by akerl_ on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:59PM (#29867280)
“OTP” isn’t an analogy for the concept of XORing a stream. One-time-pad is a specific way of handling key generation.
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Re:Hashing is not encryption by zarzavat on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:01PM (#29868829)
People use it that way.
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Re:Hashing is not encryption by akerl_ on Sunday January 09, 2022 @07:27PM (#29869054)
Who? OTP is a one time pad. You’re the first person I’ve ever seen make the claim that it’s an analogy for the concept of xor.
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