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Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by mpyne on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @12:27PM (#7554398)
This was actually broken in practice once, by (you guessed it) NSA. They managed to break into part of Soviet VENONA since the demand of OTP keymat during WWII was such that someone took a shortcut and reprinted pages of random numbers.

Don't ask me how Cold War-era NSA discovered that without Cray supercomputers everywhere, but even this scheme is difficult to pull off in practice.

Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by IvyMike on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:18PM (#7554719)
Technically a TTP is not a OTP.
Re:"Unbreakable" Encryption Almost Certainly Isn't by mpyne on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:34PM (#7555829)
Yes, that's why I referenced in practice vs. in theory.