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...with the plaintext bit by bit or character by character, somewhat like the one-time pad. In a stream cipher, the output stream is created based on an internal sta ...with his WWII work at [[Bell Labs]], [[Claude Shannon]] proved that the [[one-time pad]] cipher is unbreakable, provided the key material is truly [[random number

...ecret — is not usually a good approach. Nor, in most cases, are a [[one-time pad]] which needs a key as large as the whole set of messages it will protect, Another method, usable manually or on a computer, is a [[one-time pad]]. This works much like a stream cipher, but it does not need to generate a

...traffic. While the Soviets had originally used theoretically unbreakable [[one-time pad]]s for the traffic, some of their operations violated communications securi

In theory, any cipher except a [[one-time pad]] can be broken by a [[brute force attack]]; the enemy just has to try keys

== One-time pad ==

...e at least stubs for most of the articles they point to. Examples so far [[One-time pad]], [[Brute force attack]], [[random number]], ... [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy

...ical role in [[cryptography]], where in particular it allows unbreakable [[one-time pad]]s to be efficiently constructed and used.<ref>Gehani A ''et al.'' [http://

...s a reference to Knuth on random numbers, or the von Neumann quote, in the one-time pad paragraph of [[Cipher]] "the relevant place"? Granted, they are fine, even I also put a link to the [[Random numbers]] article in [[One-time pad]]. [[User:Sandy Harris|Sandy Harris]] 23:04, 2 August 2008 (CDT)

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...[passive attack]], [[active attack]] and some of their children. I think [[one-time pad]] is OK as far as it goes, but it likely needs additions on operational con