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Re:Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms by harryh on Sunday December 02, 2012 @11:43PM (#4863989)
A practical demonstration of this BTW (in scala):

  def otp(s: String, key: String): String = {
    def base64decode(s: String): String = {
      new String(new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(s))
    }
    def xor(a: Char, b: Char): Char = (a ^ b).toChar

    val s2 = base64decode(s)
    val k2 = base64decode(key)

    val sb = new StringBuilder()
    for (i <- 0 to s2.length - 1) {
      sb.append(xor(s2(i), k2(i)))
    }
    sb.toString
  }

  val ciphertext = "LQcGRC0HFR4ME0sjHhkOHBVSGB0ZGhIcWRUPQgsNFkYIHwdE"

  val key1 = "YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXphYmNkZWZnaGlq"
  val key2 = "eW9jZF5vemoscCpOezlobno/OGlxfzJ7K3R8MXItfShnaGtq"

  otp(ciphertext, key1)
  otp(ciphertext, key2)
So releasing the ciphertext into the wild accomplishes nothing.

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