OTP

Paul Bradley paul at fatmans.demon.co.uk
Wed Oct 23 07:59:58 PDT 1996


> 
> Ooops : there is no possible attack at all with a properly
> implmented OTP cryptosystem.  There is no keyspace to "brute-force"
> search.  Any message is as likely as any other.  Check Schneier.

Yeah, someone else pointed this out to me, it was just a slip of the 
keyboard, I think I started of talking about an OTP and slipped into 
stream cipher mode... 


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