Re:‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’
by kragen on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:36AM
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if an adversary xors their guess of part of your message and what they want it to say with the one-time-pad ciphertext, they can make it say what they want if the guess is right; this is a general vulnerability with stream ciphers
if they guess wrong, there's a little unreadable garbage in the message, but in many scenarios they only have to guess right once
so you need some kind of message authenticator like hmac
if they guess wrong, there's a little unreadable garbage in the message, but in many scenarios they only have to guess right once
so you need some kind of message authenticator like hmac