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midas007 | 12 years ago
Hair-splitting, really. Actual OTP is an imaginary construction that requires an endless supply of truly random bits that have to be securely stored or somehow recreated during decryption. It shifts the hard part to that fn, and just XORs the result with the pt or ct block.
tptacek|12 years ago
midas007|12 years ago
It's a way to take any block cipher and turn it into a stream cipher with the power of XOR.
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