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Re:One-Time Pad reinvented to make electronic copying imposs... by doktrin on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:52PM (#5741441)
I feel like I'm missing something. Isn't this still vulnerable to "electronic" intrusion, since the light-slab-cipher has to presumably be read into some type of memory somewhere, somehow?
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Re:One-Time Pad reinvented to make electronic copying imposs... by chacham15 on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:17PM (#5741713)
Yes, they assume that the sending/receiving machines arent themselves compromised. That case, however, doesnt have a solution as of yet (that I know of). The point is that any machine intercepting the transmission of the message has no way of possibly decoding it period. It absolutely requires the key to be decoded.
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